concede
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Generally coaches, including Carrick, are more willing to concede possession in wide areas, considering the middle of the pitch more dangerous.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Mr. Mamdani will soon have to concede the point or fade rapidly in political relevance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Any further strength here and you would have to concede a new leg higher for the space.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Prosecutors frequently use DNA testing to match someone to a crime as a means of getting a guilty verdict, and they are not willing to concede that that same evidence also proves innocence.”
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
It was Mapper’s turn to concede the point, but he did so as if he’d somehow won the whole argument.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
Even the abolitionist Death Penalty Information Center concedes that “there is no way to tell how many of the … people executed since 1976 may … have been innocent.”
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
Hickman, reached by email by MarketWatch, concedes that he is not sure.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Having been enjoyably candid about his goals for the summer - smashing a 27-year-old standard and winning Games gold - Kerr concedes there is relief about following word with deed.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Shapiro, who also declined an interview, said he has championed a two-state solution for decades though he concedes it now feels far away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
“You show up, I don’t sell it,” he concedes.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
However, Bessent conceded, he wasn’t doing this now—only firing a “warning shot,” saying what would happen if those entities didn’t pull back.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Ladd also conceded he had no evidence Davis ordered any shootings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The commission conceded a procedural error in how it dealt with the annual application for permission to walk along the Garvaghy Road.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
In recent years, Parton conceded that the story of how those two classics came to be might not be entirely accurate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Yet, as Fiedel conceded to me, the collapse of the Clovis consensus means that archaeologists must consider unorthodox possibilities, including that some other people preceded the ancestors of today’s Indians into the Americas.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Those fault lines are much clearer now and Iraola will know that his midfield must become harder to break down or else his side will keep on conceding.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The only variable is how much they spend before conceding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Max , 32, chuckled Wednesday when informed of that wisecrack, conceding that he’s got some pretty stiff competition in his family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
After conceding, Stevens sent a similar signal in a statement:
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
That’s even softer than a crew suggestion, because the speaker is conceding that he’s not in charge.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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