give way

It’s not exactly the kind of metaphor you want to hang an entire film on, lest its relative simplicity give way under the heft of a feature film’s many parts.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Languid piano tunes give way to surging, keening tides of strings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Then, in the late 1980s, military rule began to give way to democracy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

In a landmark speech in 1949, he argued that once constitutional avenues existed, methods such as fasting and civil disobedience should give way to democratic processes, warning that otherwise they became the "grammar of anarchy".

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

Now, with Wotton’s formulation of a tacit reserve, moral certainty was required to give way to a new sort of temporary knowledge, a purely provisional understanding.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton