giving in
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Once AI took the chip off my shoulder, I was able to reply warmly and constructively, instead of giving in to impulsive, ego-driven irritation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
We give him credit for not giving in to our ideas but sticking with us on the project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The foundation, and about 45 others so far, have signed a pledge to increase their giving in response to government funding cuts.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
“If we make it OK to loot a charity, the entire foundation of charitable giving in America will be destroyed,” Musk testified Tuesday, according to Reuters.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
Mama’s saying “oh well” was her way of giving in.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
Apparently my friend’s mother thought my dad would eventually give in, but my father wasn’t the giving-in type.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2020
"I am at your service now, Mr. Campbell, though let me tell you, I think I am giving-in to Maggie more than I ought to, sir."
From A Daughter of Fife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Yet even in this we have no sense of failure, of "giving-in": it is for intenser life that he dies, and she shall be his queen "while his soul endures."
From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield
But father's his only child, and our grandmother died a good while ago, and I think she must have been a very giving-in sort of person, and that's bad training for any one.
From The Girls and I A Veracious History by Mrs. Molesworth
This does not imply, however, a weak giving-in to grief and mourning.
From Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin
