surrender

Example Sentences

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What Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid is out to evoke is bone-deep submission: the kind of total capitulation and surrender that makes a person unrecognizable even to themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The people who will thrive alongside AI aren’t the ones who surrender to it most efficiently, they’re the ones who use it to stress-test their thinking and expand their cognitive range.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

At the Potsdam Conference of 1945, after Germany's surrender, the allied leaders agreed that in the future Germany should be demilitarised.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Rather than surrender to those setbacks, Raye saddles up and sets off in search of happiness.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

I must have given him a devil’s glare because he raised his hands in surrender and went back to rousing the fainted Bactrian camel.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri