succumb to
Example Sentences
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We can all live and work together—or we can succumb to fatalism and a false sense of inevitability.
From Slate • May 28, 2026
China may allow its currency to succumb to upward pressure as part of its trade negotiations with the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
But we don’t have to succumb to that pressure.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
Given "the fear of falling behind" the United States and China in developing AI technologies, Prissard said that Europe may succumb to the "temptation to allow more leeway to innovate without obstacles".
From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026
Bigger felt an urgent need to hide his growing and deepening feeling of hysteria; he had to get rid of it or else he would succumb to it.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
