giving way
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As the losses pile up, urgency is giving way to exasperation for a team with an especially challenging schedule of upcoming opponents: at Seattle, Denver, at Kansas City, at Rams, Houston, at Baltimore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
It carried a searching air before giving way to a drum solo and then to a brief, hard-driving suggestion of an entirely new song.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
With high pressure giving way to low pressure for the rest of this week, rain is expected to become much more widespread over the next few days, although rainfall totals will be very uneven.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Like skinny jeans, they eventually became unavoidable — and thus a bit stale, giving way to looser fits and bulkier “dad” sneakers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
He holds me while my shoulders shake and the sun relinquishes its last beam, giving way to blackness.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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