cede
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In addition to selling goods, Amazon’s shopping site has a large advertising business, and it won’t want to cede any ground to Meta in that space, analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Metro might cede “the massive responsibility of delivering a spectator and workforce transit system” to LA28.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Importantly, integrating Claude into Salesforce’s platform causes Salesforce to cede control of its user interface layer in some ways; the company must give up control of where users access Salesforce data from, for instance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Fish and marine industries account for almost 40% of Iceland's exports and many No voters are worried that under the EU's common fisheries policy they could cede some control of their lucrative fishing grounds.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
I cede control to my lower half, which is actually pointing toward my room, and lead Nia to it.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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The announcement answers long-simmering questions about a successor for 65-year-old Cook, who said he will become executive chairman of the board when he cedes Apple's CEO position.
From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026
However, the union said Disney’s OpenAI deal “appears to sanction its theft of our work and cedes the value of what we create to a tech company that has built its business off our backs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Fleet and amusing, alive to childhood’s exploratory nature, it also regrettably cedes dramatic ground at a curious point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
Haidt, a digital absolutist, cedes no ground on the issue of social media.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
The king abdicates his throne, cedes his territory, deserts his followers, renounces his religion, relinquishes his titles, abandons his designs.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
Yet, Spain’s security forces have effectively ceded control of its waters, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
It has also ceded its position as the Nordic country's second-largest political force.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Every one of the 13 penalties England conceded sapped their momentum, ceded territory and ratcheted up pressure.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
The league already ceded its regular season to the offseason, leaning into free agency drama as a driving source of year-round intrigue, letting team-building trump teamwork.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
In the Treaty of Greenville, signed in 1795, the nations of the alliance ceded a great deal of their Ohio territory to the US.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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While chip stocks were bouncing on Tuesday and software stocks were ceding some ground, neither move unwinds the extent of Monday’s performance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Its critics typically are those who fear ceding their own traditional advantages to others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The Yosemite NPS Employees Union said it was "appalled" by the ceding of public lands for private interests, calling the proposed trade "antithetical to what we stand for" as stewards of the park.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Once in office, she championed issues that had mattered to him, including ceding control of the Panama Canal.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
After settler forces defeated the Cherokees in 1776, one group of Cherokees strongly opposed to ceding any more land moved farther west.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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