capitulation
Example Sentences
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If this is what capitulation looks like, it would be a first.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
Captain Van Dijk criticised his team-mates after last Saturday's 4-0 capitulation against Manchester City in the FA Cup.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
What Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid is out to evoke is bone-deep submission: the kind of total capitulation and surrender that makes a person unrecognizable even to themselves.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
But Suzanne Maloney, an Iran specialist and foreign-policy vice president at the Brookings Institution think tank, said Trump won’t swiftly get the full capitulation he seeks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
They arranged some type of work for us to do in the courtyard, but it was merely a fig leaf to hide their capitulation.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing capitulation
The Diary of a Young Girl
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This Week In Words: February 1–7, 2020
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