surrender
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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
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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
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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
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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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