cede
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A seat at the table is too important to cede to whoever is willing to leak a photograph.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
In August 2024, Two Sigma announced that Overdeck and Siegel would cede their co-CEO roles while remaining the firm’s co-chairman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Metro might cede “the massive responsibility of delivering a spectator and workforce transit system” to LA28.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
It has framed this as necessary to ensure the US does not cede dominance to China.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
It helps to keep in mind that all but four end with cede.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
To get the upfront tax deduction, the donor cedes legal control of the donated funds to the DAF sponsor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
The announcement answers long-simmering questions about a successor for 65-year-old Cook, who said he will become executive chairman of the board when he cedes Apple's CEO position.
From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026
How companies respond will determine whether the US continues to lead in innovation and talent - or cedes ground to more welcoming economies.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
Safety Derwin James Jr. said he’s never been around a coach such as Harbaugh, who cedes the huddle to players at random.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024
He even cedes a little of the ground he has gained.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
It has also ceded its position as the Nordic country's second-largest political force.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
When the Buss family ceded majority control of the Lakers in 2025, the franchise was worth nearly 150 times what their patriarch had paid for it in 1979.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Every one of the 13 penalties England conceded sapped their momentum, ceded territory and ratcheted up pressure.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Ford CEO Jim Farley has said the company may get back into sedans, which Detroit automakers ceded almost entirely to foreign rivals over the past decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
In the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the Crown ceded to the United States territory from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, south of the Great Lakes and north of Spanish-occupied Florida.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Its critics typically are those who fear ceding their own traditional advantages to others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
One question is the wisdom of ceding more tariff authority to the White House.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Once in office, she championed issues that had mattered to him, including ceding control of the Panama Canal.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Some of them are said to be concerned that the company risks ceding ground to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, among others.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
The ceding was so high, it was lost in the gloom and layers upon layers of spiderwebs.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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