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Although the original platform of radio broadcasts had by now given way to the website and social media.

From BBC

And when war headlines give way to the damage the ware has done to global growth prospects, stocks will struggle to recover.

From Barron's

It’s as if a long-disused history book’s pages have finally been opened, dust giving way to color and purpose.

From Los Angeles Times

Against a backdrop of worsening inflation, tariffs, and the maintenance of a significantly undervalued currency—in the case of the Chinese renminbi—would give way to trade deals and a stronger renminbi, Gavekal says.

From Barron's

The trajectory was familiar to many moviegoers from their experience in legitimate organizations, when the success of the 1920s gave way to the job losses and suffering of the Great Depression.

From The Wall Street Journal