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capitulation

[kuh-pich-uh-ley-shuhn] / kəˌpɪtʃ əˈleɪ ʃən /


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If this is what capitulation looks like, it would be a first.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

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

He expects stock capitulation only if credit spreads widen meaningfully from here.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

The capitulation of France is only weeks past, and already he has seen things he did not dream he would see in six lifetimes.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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