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surrender

[suh-ren-der] / səˈrɛn dər /




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She must also surrender her passport, adhere to a curfew, provide her phone number to gardaí, and sign on daily at garda station in County Kildare.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Pausing such operations long enough to reassess protocols was not surrender.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

Sources familiar with the operation but not authorized to speak publicly said U.S. federal agents had been in contact with Guzmán López, and were pressuring him to surrender.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Other research has pointed the same way, highlighting what has come to be called "cognitive offloading" -- or even "cognitive surrender".

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Unfortunately, fighting in the Philippines would continue for several more months after the Battle of Manila; Japan would not surrender until September 2, 1945.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

But last December’s decision to license H200 sales surrenders that lead.

From MarketWatch May 14, 2026

District Judge Margaret Garnett released Van Dyke while he awaits trial, on conditions including that he surrenders his passport and any firearms.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

Rather than transcending expectations, “Dangerous Animals” surrenders to them.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2025

Harket, 65, said he had "no problem accepting the diagnosis", adding: "With time, I've taken to heart my 94-year-old father's attitude to the way the organism gradually surrenders: 'I use whatever works'."

From BBC Jun. 4, 2025

There was no counterbalance to stagnation, to pessimism, to the most abject surrenders to mysticism.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Detectives then identified the suspect, who walked into a Santa Monica Police Department station and surrendered himself Tuesday evening, police said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Gray surrendered at the scene and has remained in custody.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

In Popular Constitutionalism, Kramer describes this tradition as one that “we seem to have lost, or surrendered, today.”

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

Despite being fit enough to play, the Arsenal winger remained an unused substitute as Thomas Tuchel's side surrendered a 1-0 lead in the closing stages to lose 2-1 to holders Argentina.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Immediately, like all the ladies, they put their hands behind their backs and surrendered.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

By the end, the Sparks spent the game playing catch-up, never regaining the lead after surrendering it in the first 49 seconds to Johnson.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

If every click to enable an app or service amounted to surrendering Fourth Amendment protection, constitutional privacy would steadily evaporate as technology became more sophisticated.

From Slate Jun. 29, 2026

The broader market cheered the sharp retreat in oil prices, with crude surrendering most of the gains triggered by the Iran war and approaching prewar levels.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

SpaceX briefly surpassed Microsoft on an intraday basis before surrendering some gains.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

While the sun burst into multicolored flames on the horizon, its last wave goodbye before surrendering to the night, Ma handed Ba a bowl of rice porridge.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin




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