surrender
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"We had no choice but to surrender" to our fate, he told reporters at the Bhayangkara Hospital in Surabaya, where he was waiting to retrieve the body of a colleague.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Truman held doggedly to Roosevelt’s demand for unconditional surrender as the atomic bomb test lighted up the New Mexico sky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
She must also surrender her passport, adhere to a curfew, provide her phone number to gardaí, and sign on daily at garda station in County Kildare.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Pausing such operations long enough to reassess protocols was not surrender.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
“So you’re saying that unless I surrender, you will continue to move away from me?”
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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
The animals are also trained to come away when told and to leave anyone who surrenders.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025
Rather than transcending expectations, “Dangerous Animals” surrenders to them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
She raises the cane over her head once more, but this time the squirrel surrenders.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
Alexandra Lozano, who was licensed to practice law in Washington state and had an office in Commerce, surrendered her bar license and closed her law firm in June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Gray surrendered at the scene and has remained in custody.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Detectives then identified the suspect, who walked into a Santa Monica Police Department station and surrendered himself Tuesday evening, police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
In Popular Constitutionalism, Kramer describes this tradition as one that “we seem to have lost, or surrendered, today.”
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
He felt that if he surrendered on the dog question, there was no telling what the Council might vote next.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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
By the end, the Sparks spent the game playing catch-up, never regaining the lead after surrendering it in the first 49 seconds to Johnson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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
Except Ilicali appears to have played his hand a little early, surrendering some of his bargaining power by openly admitting a clock is ticking.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Though his house was under attack, he lay down, knowing something would awaken him soon enough, and so, surrendering for now, he fell into a shallow sleep.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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