surrender
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In a cloak-and-dagger operation he sneaked out of Brazil via Argentina and Ecuador, after being ordered to surrender his passports due to several ongoing investigations against him.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered him late Sunday to surrender his passports and barred him from leaving the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
On Thursday, he was granted $10,000 bail, ordered not to contact or post about his accuser, and to surrender his passport.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Their exit is a surrender charge, and the door they would knock on belongs to the same people who made the loans.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Accordingly, a formerly incarcerated person living at or below the poverty level can be charged by four or five departments at once and can be required to surrender 100 percent of his or her earnings.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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This is equally true whether the suspect immediately surrenders or chooses to flee.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Local media also reported that Koreans are surrendering their life-insurance policies to buy shares, with policy surrenders said to have surged 16% in the last quarter among the top three insurers.
From MarketWatch ● May 21, 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
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
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Two more were captured with the help of drone surveillance, police said, while the last two men surrendered on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Peters also surrendered his passport and, as part of his bail conditions, agreed to refrain from contacting or posting about his accuser.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Kalinsky surrendered one of his annuities and continued to hold on to the other two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
I could have told him all that, could have surrendered the weight, let the relationship carry it and grow stronger.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Ashby is one out shy of matching the all-time record for the most innings thrown by a reliever in a postseason without surrendering a run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Instead of surrendering to sticker shock, people are finding ways to gamify their daily expenses, hunt down hidden perks and even double down on their goals for the future.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
She can become a mother without surrendering her career.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
After surrendering 28 first-half points, JSerra held Bishop Amat, and running back Justin Clinton, who rushed for more than 130 yards, including a 67-yard burst and a 43-yard touchdown, in check in the second half.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
She knew he was the one who had made the radio announcement to all of Japan declaring that the nation was surrendering to the Allied forces.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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