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give way

verb as in snap

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The social disruption caused by the collapse of the savings and loan industry and the rise of hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts had given way to a brief period of recriminations.

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Many on Wall Street assumed the Fed’s tight policy stance would usher in a recession, and for more than nine months, every attempted stock-market recovery ultimately gave way to new lows.

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Promotion of knowledge and understanding has given way to inculcation of a poisonous fringe ideology.

Her art, once abstract, started giving way to bold geometry.

All the hype about the Lebanese disarming Hezbollah has given way to familiar passivity and disappointment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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