surrender
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Kekesi added that having devices with child safety features as a default meant adults don't have to "surrender unnecessary personal information to multiple apps and websites".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
But we question why the parents must move to a high-cost area and surrender essentially all of their assets to finance a property that the older brother insists on owning and controlling.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Summoning the will to surrender that power he’d trained all his life to inherit, to the Guardians of the Universe ordering him to betray his friend, is a Herculean act.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
All told, Schlittler and Fried combined to surrender a lone run on five hits over 12 ⅓ standout frames.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
A stranger might reasonably interpret my brother's language as a lack of respect and view my father's response as a form of shameful surrender.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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A chairman who avoids discussing the outlook can’t explain the committee’s decisions and surrenders a tool for steering it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Don’t miss: Tesla’s stock surrenders gains after earnings.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 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
Berlin surrenders; Goring surrenders; the great mysterious vault of Nazism falls open.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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What diners surrendered wasn’t necessarily quality so much as a little hospitality, a little transparency and, increasingly, the expectation that a restaurant represented somebody’s particular idea of what a restaurant should be.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Bear surrendered his collar in March after a decade of being a very good boy as one of the first dogs in the country to be trained to detect the scent of koala fur.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
And he surrendered four runs, the worst mark of his Dodgers tenure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
But on the other side of the ball, they surrendered 478 yards to a Panthers offense that ranked 27th last season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Inside the trench, I glued myself to my brothers, and my heart surrendered to the rhythm of our vigilant breaths, all rising and falling in anxious unison.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
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She can become a mother without surrendering her career.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
The episode came shortly before a dramatic night for Real Madrid, who recovered from surrendering a two-goal lead to beat Elche 3-2, with Carlos Espi scoring the winner in stoppage time.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
On Saturday evening, Niger's public television broadcast footage of dozens of soldiers, including women, who appeared to be surrendering with their hands raised, whilst others were sat in rows on the ground.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Datamaxxers are getting a DIY head start, although some worry about surrendering too much of their privacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
I imagined the sound of my hands punching off it, and the feel of my body lifting, spinning weightlessly through the air before surrendering to gravity, my feet finding the mat.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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