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cede

[seed] / sid /


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In return, they cede territorial access to the US military.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 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

Some researchers worried about AI safety also cite enfeeblement as a risk, a “WALL-E” future in which humans gradually cede control to machines and eventually become unable to define, or even understand, our destiny.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Gracious of George Lucas to cede turf to the one movie as beloved as “Star Wars.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 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

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

"If you cross me, I'm just like my father / I am colder than Titanic water," she warns, before the song cedes way to the 18th Century aria, Caro Mio Ben.

From BBC Mar. 28, 2024

March 28th.—Treaty of Peace between France and Naples, who cedes Elba and Piombino.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall

The army, which also suffered casualties, disputed it had ceded control - but said its soldiers had to "retreat temporarily".

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Yet Ford has been increasingly interested in sedans, a vehicle category that Detroit automakers have ceded to foreign competitors such as Toyota and Honda.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

London and Madrid have disputed control of Gibraltar since the tiny territory was ceded to Britain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

The company fell behind during the rise of the mobile internet and ceded ground to rivals making processors for smartphones, data center servers and other devices in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

If I had not ceded control of the wheel, and if he had not assumed control of the vessel so deftly, I’m sure I’d be dead.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

In an interview with Bill Moyers shared by the Berry Center in 2025, Berry said that he and his compatriots had had enough of the state government ceding control of resources to the coal companies.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 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

Some of them are said to be concerned that the company risks ceding ground to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, among others.

From MarketWatch Jul. 16, 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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