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In Germany, a democratic revolution toppled the monarchy in 1918, bringing into existence the fragile Weimar Republic, which communists in Moscow hoped would soon succumb to a communist revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

We can all live and work together—or we can succumb to fatalism and a false sense of inevitability.

From Slate ● May 28, 2026

Adult Joshua trees are more resilient than seedlings, but they can still succumb to intense heat waves and drought.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

It’s like the pain of punishment, when it’s a craving you succumb to.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

He girded himself to “understand better now what I’ve always known: he who drags himself through life, who succumbs under its weight, can’t help anyone, no matter what duties he takes on.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

But her character succumbs to Ducournau’s convoluted plotting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Soon “the spaceship is forced to land on a distant planet, and Rodolfo’s hallucinations grow increasingly intense until he finally succumbs to oxygen deprivation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 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

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

This is what it feels like to live in a society that has succumbed to what the late psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton described as “malignant normality.”

From Salon ● May 24, 2026

"The person concerned, a compatriot aged 28, unfortunately succumbed to the disease before the diagnosis was confirmed," the spokesman added.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

As one of the nation’s largest ultralow-cost carriers succumbed to rising fuel costs and an insurmountable debt load, the immediate reaction was to ask what went wrong with the budget-airline model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

In the warm-up at Hampden, John Souttar succumbed to injury.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

The outsiders, of course, thought that Remedios the Beauty had finally succumbed to her irrevocable fate of a queen bee and that her family was trying to save her honor with that tale of levitation.

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

So the best investors can hope for in the U.K. is probably that the government will muddle through without succumbing to a political or fiscal collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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

It ended last year and started this one in a deep hole, succumbing to fears that artificial intelligence could displace software.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

We don’t want to be uncharitable toward the recently deceased, and we should note that he logged decades of impressive years before succumbing to decline.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2026

He could hear tree limbs succumbing to the wind, great exhalations as their trunks fell on streets and roofs.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers