giving in
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Petersen said at the time that the city was giving in to blackmail from the business community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The 95-year-old 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 ● May 31, 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
“Okay,” she conceded, giving in to his stubbornness.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
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
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
Miss Bess was in a very giving-in mood.
From Nurse Heatherdale's Story by Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth
