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surrender

[suh-ren-der] / səˈrɛn dər /




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

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

"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

“When you sublet your judgment about facts and morals to a rigid ideology, you really surrender your ability to make real moral judgments, and also to make real factual judgments.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Pausing such operations long enough to reassess protocols was not surrender.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

As soon as he got the post, he offered to arrange the surrender of West Point to the British for £20,000, a sum equal to well over one million dollars today.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

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

Eventually, the U.S. surrenders after a German nuclear attack; and America is occupied by Nazi Germany along the eastern seaboard and Japan on the West Coast, with a pseudo-independent Vichy regime in the Rockies.

From Salon May 17, 2025

Berlin surrenders; Goring surrenders; the great mysterious vault of Nazism falls open.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

After the U.S. forces surrendered, Schurtz left his position and approached the Japanese to make sure they knew hostilities had ended, saving his men.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Phillips, who last week talked about rewiring his rehab mindset, has already surrendered four home runs in just seven outings.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

Starting pitcher Roki Sasaki held the Mets to just three hits, which included a solo homer from Luis Roberts Jr. that accounted for the only run Sasaki surrendered.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

In Popular Constitutionalism, Kramer describes this tradition as one that “we seem to have lost, or surrendered, today.”

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

The garrison surrendered only because the men had no water and were literally dying of thirst.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

He looked primed for a comeback victory but a different, depleted Draper returned for the third set, surrendering the opening game having led 40-15.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

The job has to measure up to the trade-off of precious time he’s surrendering.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 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

SpaceX briefly surpassed Microsoft on an intraday basis before surrendering some gains.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Everyday people lying next to each other on a makeshift beach, the mottled spring light passing through the dense trees before softly surrendering to dusk.

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




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