surrender
Example Sentences
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What Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid is out to evoke is bone-deep submission: the kind of total capitulation and surrender that makes a person unrecognizable even to themselves.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
The people who will thrive alongside AI aren’t the ones who surrender to it most efficiently, they’re the ones who use it to stress-test their thinking and expand their cognitive range.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Samar shares the popular view that for every senior official "they've reportedly assigned three to seven successors. Like a hydra - you cut one head off, another grows back. They won't surrender any time soon."
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
"They'll have to take us by force," said the man in his thirties, who fled his home with his wife and two-year-old son, insisting they "will not surrender".
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Johnson tried to fire him, but Stanton refused to surrender his War Department offices.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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