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giving in





giving-in






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“They’re so connected, and it’s so fun to be a part of it and they’re always very gracious and giving in their performance too,” Rosenberg said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

He said he wanted to wait and see what more he learned from the Epstein files before making his annual decision on giving in late June.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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

So instead of giving in to fear, I put fear aside and thought.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

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

This does not imply, however, a weak giving-in to grief and mourning.

From Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin

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

And his final giving-in to everything Fay wanted because Fay wanted it.

From Jan and Her Job by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

Miss Bess was in a very giving-in mood.

From Nurse Heatherdale's Story by Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth


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