capitulation
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A true capitulation, but even that wouldn’t be easy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
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
That hasn’t triggered a capitulation in stocks yet, the bank’s March Fund Managers’ Survey indicated, although the poll’s broadest measure of investor sentiment still sits at the lowest level in six months.
From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026
But Suzanne Maloney, an Iran specialist and foreign-policy vice president at the Brookings Institution think tank, said Trump won’t swiftly get the full capitulation he seeks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
This military victory eventually led to a British capitulation three years later and to freedom for the United States—and lasting fame for Washington.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
Vocabulary lists containing capitulation
The Diary of a Young Girl
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