concession
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It’s no doubt a concession to the intensifying public narrative that no one likes what Netflix has to offer these days.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
The prisoner release scheme was a key concession by her administration to the US.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Then, last week, Ellison made his biggest concession yet: to spend at least $1.5 billion more on domestic production over five years, people familiar with the offer said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Unite Here Local 11, the union which represents workers including dishwashers, concession workers, bartenders and servers and SoFi Stadium’s food-service operator Legends Global, came to a tentative agreement days before the first match.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
The concierge, before she became a concierge, had owned a drink-selling concession at the Paris race-courses.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said last week that talks had hit a "plateau", with little room for further concessions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
And nearly half of sellers are giving concessions to buyers to get deals done, such as offering to cover closing costs or giving money for repairs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
According to the case file seen by AFP, their consortium used shell companies and Albanian and foreign nationals, notably Dutch and Italian, to conceal the identity of the real owners of the concessions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
White House spokesman Rogers told me “the Venezuelan ministries that have power to grant concessions were the ones that lawfully granted these concessions” to NABEP.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
At disarmament talks, moreover, he had developed the disturbing habit of offering the Russians concessions that had not been approved by the president or Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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