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Mayor Zohran Mamdani made headlines when he watched England succumb to Argentina with inmates at the city's notorious Rikers Island jail.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

It’s the jaded who succumb to violence and hopelessness, dragging everyone down with them.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Now the time has finally arrived to find out whether they can live up to that moniker—or if they’ll succumb to its curse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

But we don’t have to succumb to that pressure.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

For a long time she kept on smelling Pietro Crespi's lavender breath at dusk, but she had the strength not to succumb to delirium.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

But her character succumbs to Ducournau’s convoluted plotting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Soon “the spaceship is forced to land on a distant planet, and Rodolfo’s hallucinations grow increasingly intense until he finally succumbs to oxygen deprivation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

The question is whether the party now meekly succumbs to the browbeating:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

In the more pessimistic schema, Tesla succumbs to competition and margin pressure, the market disregards Optimus in valuations and Robotaxi has slower growth expected.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025

On 29 January 2016, the last hive of honeybees, located on an almond farm in California, succumbs to CCD.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

On Wednesday, his lawyer Ménya Arab-Tigrine denied any wrongdoing by Siad—who was in his late sixties—suggesting he might have succumbed to the stress of being under public scrutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Initially Chantal only invested 250 euros, but after seeing her money quickly quadruple she succumbed when advisors asked if she wanted to invest more money.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

This is what it feels like to live in a society that has succumbed to what the late psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton described as “malignant normality.”

From Salon ● May 24, 2026

A few months later, after the publication of her second novel, “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,” Anne, 29, succumbed to the disease in nearby Scarborough, just south of Whitby.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

How could he answer all of them if he succumbed to the mundane responsibilities of married life?

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

McCraney, Geffen Playhouse’s artistic director, said forging a path forward in nonprofit theater without succumbing to commercial pressure to produce only guaranteed hits requires the delicate balance of surfing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Pilgrims perform most of the hajj's rites outdoors where more than a million devotees gather in stifling conditions, with many attendees succumbing to heatstroke, fainting spells and even cardiac arrest triggered by the heat.

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

Donald Trump trades stocks at a confounding rate, Everlane is reportedly sold to Shein, and online media is succumbing to bots.

From Slate ● May 23, 2026

So the best investors can hope for in the U.K. is probably that the government will muddle through without succumbing to a political or fiscal collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

I never imagined her succumbing to an arranged marriage, especially not right out of college.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed