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kowtow

[kou-tou, -tou, koh-] / ˈkaʊˈtaʊ, -ˌtaʊ, ˈkoʊ- /


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Bennett argued presciently that by kowtowing to radicals, “a great university was brought low by the very forces which modern universities came into being to oppose: ignorance, irrationality and intimidation.”

From The Wall Street Journal

It kowtowed to every fashionable agenda to protect its independence.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those early signs of kowtowing were bad indicators that the members of Youngstown State University’s faculty union just couldn’t get behind.

From Salon

"A kowtowing of the East towards the West is not a rising East."

From BBC

It will not want to be seen kowtowing to Washington.

From BBC