relent
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I relent that I’m both a lapsed fashion student and someone who spent their adolescence and early teens marveling at Jacobs’ designs and Coppola’s films.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
“We will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated, but we do so on our timeline and at our choosing.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Advocates say they plan to continue pressing the U.S. government, even though many lack optimism that Washington will ever relent.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026
Spare a thought then for Switzerland, which has been hit with punitive tariffs of 39%, and has so far been unable to persuade the US president to relent.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025
Unless a new source of coin could be found, or the Iron Bank persuaded to relent, he would have no choice but to pay the crown’s debts with Lannister gold.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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