capitulation

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What Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid is out to evoke is bone-deep submission: the kind of total capitulation and surrender that makes a person unrecognizable even to themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

That hasn’t triggered a capitulation in stocks yet, the bank’s March Fund Managers’ Survey indicated, although the poll’s broadest measure of investor sentiment still sits at the lowest level in six months.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

But Suzanne Maloney, an Iran specialist and foreign-policy vice president at the Brookings Institution think tank, said Trump won’t swiftly get the full capitulation he seeks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

They had to do it when the flak was flying after the capitulation against Argentina in November and the opening defeat by Italy in Rome a few weeks back.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

This military victory eventually led to a British capitulation three years later and to freedom for the United States—and lasting fame for Washington.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy