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succumb

[suh-kuhm] / səˈkʌm /


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Today’s target group is teenagers, who famously succumb to peer pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

He senses the world changing in real time and doesn’t want to get left behind, lest his reporting and notoriety succumb to oblivion.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

If their CTmax is exceeded, insects succumb to desiccation, muscle spasms and eventual stupor.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

It would hardly have been seemly for someone who had challenged our dictator to suddenly succumb to a nervous attack at the communion rail.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

Girl succumbs to her temptations while walking through the aisles.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 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

Yes, bears: crypto slang for people who think the price of Bitcoin is going to fall or who have in some other way succumbed to crypto pessimism.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 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

The British number one had finally succumbed to Croatia's Donna Vekic in a slow-burning Queen's final, unable to save a fifth Championship point and continue a match which she had admirably stoked into a scrap.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Even privacy coins that were posting a rebound have succumbed to the sectorwide weakness, with Zcash down 6.7% to $429.36 and XMR off 1.8% to $309.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

A few people in Manifest had succumbed to fatigue and mild flu symptoms.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

You need to balance your enjoyment of the present with building a future in California, without succumbing to 24/7 pressure.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

It seems the cohort of crypto-exposed names was joining the broad-based tech rally ahead of the open rather than succumbing to the pressure on Bitcoin.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

She approaches and then sits by her sister’s grave, trying hard to fight the emotions as they come to her but succumbing all the same.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling


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