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Which chess term refers to an opening that involves a deliberate sacrifice?

sacrifice

[sak-ruh-fahys] / ˈsæk rəˌfaɪs /




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"Dear fathers and grandfathers... treat your wives with respect, ask for forgiveness and live with integrity, even when doing so requires sacrifice," the head of the Catholic Church said during a homily in Uruguay.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

In the end, their sacrifice may have been the only thing that prevented a wipeout of the whole delegation.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2026

In a Times profile on Skipp Townsend, Bennett, a onetime Rollin’ 60s member, said: “He is a Blood. He’s going into Crip neighborhood. There’s no more bigger sacrifice than that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Although this sacrifice kills the individual cell, it prevents the virus from producing more copies and infecting nearby bacteria, helping protect the larger colony.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Nhamo made a final breakfast and scattered some of her precious mealie meal as a sacrifice to whatever ancestors might be present.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

"In this princely tomb, the burials were accompanied by extensive horse sacrifices and, most likely, human sacrifices as well," says Gino Caspari.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

I wish I could have spoken to Dolores about the sacrifices she made in the name of all of us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Set a retirement date and a realistic annual spending plan, and come to an agreement on what sacrifices you would make if the market fell sharply.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

With elegant symmetry and a cool, genteel prose style, Ms. Li tracks these parallel stories, exploring the duo’s worldly educations and the ruthless sacrifices to love and friendship they make in pursuit of their ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

We all ought to make sacrifices for literature.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

The bigger challenge is what civilian spending must be sacrificed to pay for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

For Boulouque, "young people are acutely conscious of the weight of the debt and environmental problems" left by previous generations and have "the feeling of being sacrificed" as a result.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

She says she honored him by caring for him and that I’m discounting everything she sacrificed.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

For those with financial means, it was a kind of gilded servitude, in which the young sacrificed their waking lives to teachers who primed them for the concert hall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

At his word, a hundred llamas would be sacrificed, the emperor would fast for ten days, a statue of pure gold would be erected in honor of any of the deities.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

A single mum has said following government advice to stock up on emergency supplies would mean sacrificing her childcare budget for the school holidays.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

MarketWatch columnist Aditi Shrikant explains how a tighter budget, automatic payments and unexpected cash windfalls can shrink your balance without sacrificing your financial safety net.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Their approach offered a way to improve contrast without sacrificing electron beam intensity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Kitchens are looking at how often to cook chicken without sacrificing flavor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

It wasn't bad but not worth sacrificing my own private frozen lake for.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell


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