conceding

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Mikel Arteta's Gunners won the Premier League while becoming the first team to go the whole campaign without receiving a red card or conceding a penalty.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

She clubbed Charlie Dean for back-to-back sixes as England's captain was hit out of the attack by conceding 14 runs from her sole over.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

When renewal came due in 1994, Clinton granted MFN unconditionally, conceding that the strategy had “reached the end of its usefulness.”

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

“He’s conceding detention at this time,” one of his federal public defenders, Tezira Abe, told Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, according to CNBC.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Now here was Gottlieb, conceding a potentially catastrophic error.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson