surrender

Legal scholars have debated whether surrogates should pay legal damages if they fail to honor a contractual abortion provision, surrender payments remaining on the contract, or even pay back money they already received.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

The Sheriff’s Department dispatched a team of specialized crisis negotiators who attempted to negotiate his surrender, but the man refused to exit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

Japan occupied all of Korea before its 1945 surrender in the Second World War, after which the peninsula was divided into separate states along the 38th parallel.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

The findings led Canvey Island Town Council to surrender its lease of the lake to Castle Point Borough Council.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

And I remembered, too, that the definition of surrender isn’t to give up, but to go over to the winning side.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

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

But last December’s decision to license H200 sales surrenders that lead.

From MarketWatch ● May 14, 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

There was no counterbalance to stagnation, to pessimism, to the most abject surrenders to mysticism.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Arthur Andersen surrendered its CPA license, effectively putting the firm out of business in 2002, although the Supreme Court later overturned the conviction.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

Wrobleski, who has pitched a career-high 126⅓ innings this season, surrendered four runs and four hits in a loss against the Brewers on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

He said the move could see hundreds of thousands of guns surrendered.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

The rescue center argued that Bruce’s owners should have notified and surrendered the dog to them before relinquishing control to animal services.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Keegan was the name of the firefighter who had found him in the box where people surrendered babies.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

They included General Dietrich von Choltitz, the last Nazi commander in Paris, who arrived in late August 1944 after defying Hitler and surrendering the city.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

In contrast, Ulysses S. Grant illustrates a more-challenging leadership path, namely reconciliation without surrendering principle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

If every click to enable an app or service amounted to surrendering Fourth Amendment protection, constitutional privacy would steadily evaporate as technology became more sophisticated.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

After missing out on six World Cups in a row, and maybe surrendering to fatalism along the way, game day is upon us here in the United States.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

While the sun burst into multicolored flames on the horizon, its last wave goodbye before surrendering to the night, Ma handed Ba a bowl of rice porridge.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin