capitulation

Example Sentences

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Captain Van Dijk criticised his team-mates after last Saturday's 4-0 capitulation against Manchester City in the FA Cup.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 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

Tudor was considered fortunate in many eyes to survive that, although a deserved draw at Liverpool and that second leg win against Atletico offered hope until the capitulation against Forest.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 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

They were divided on the subject of capitulation or resistance.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White