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succumb

[suh-kuhm] / səˈkʌm /


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It nevertheless seems a good bet that, sooner or later and quite likely sooner, the market will succumb to the gravitational pull of insider bearishness.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

“If I’m very self-assured about my cultural identity and heritage, I’m much less likely to succumb to suicidal empathy,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

It’s the jaded who succumb to violence and hopelessness, dragging everyone down with them.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

These kinds of commoditized industries tend to succumb to price wars: The lowest-cost producer “wins” by destroying the entire industry’s margins.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

For a long time she kept on smelling Pietro Crespi's lavender breath at dusk, but she had the strength not to succumb to delirium.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The market might not be imploding so much as readjusting as the tech industry succumbs to more realistic expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The question is whether the party now meekly succumbs to the browbeating:

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

In the more pessimistic schema, Tesla succumbs to competition and margin pressure, the market disregards Optimus in valuations and Robotaxi has slower growth expected.

From MarketWatch Dec. 8, 2025

Fearing he’s a has-been, the diminutive, balding Hart slowly succumbs to self-loathing.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 17, 2025

On 29 January 2016, the last hive of honeybees, located on an almond farm in California, succumbs to CCD.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

It is not the first time the castle has succumbed to an earthquake.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

On Wednesday, his lawyer Ménya Arab-Tigrine denied any wrongdoing by Siad—who was in his late sixties—suggesting he might have succumbed to the stress of being under public scrutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

While firefighters were able to reach Paul and Sheila inside the Mohican Road home, the couple succumbed to smoke inhalation.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2026

Initially Chantal only invested 250 euros, but after seeing her money quickly quadruple she succumbed when advisors asked if she wanted to invest more money.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

The day they succumbed to starvation, he flew down the Schoharie gorge and up over the mountains of Delhi.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

He acknowledged succumbing to the “deal heat” Cohan mentioned, but never regretted it.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

McCain said these varieties, plus the work of farmers like Bubb, turned potatoes once wilting under drought and succumbing to disease during floods into much more resilient potatoes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

Donald Trump trades stocks at a confounding rate, Everlane is reportedly sold to Shein, and online media is succumbing to bots.

From Slate May 23, 2026

But succumbing to the siren song of salt, I left my packed lunch at home to give it a whirl and find out what regularly eating too much salt is doing to our health.

From BBC May 15, 2026

He’d been a dairy farmer for years, he said, before switching to corrections thirteen years earlier, succumbing to economic inevitability.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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