conceding
- present participle of concede.
Example Sentences
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"Conceding 28 points like that bothers me," complained Toulon's head coach Pierre Mignoni.
From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025
Conceding Brigitte’s argument that he’s an undeserving candidate to buy Cassell, Roberto admits, “It’s true: Everything I know about France I learned from ‘Ratatouille’!”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
Conceding that she is confronting a “big, big learning curve,” Lara Trump told the AP she has the requisite background to succeed, having worked on both of Trump’s previous presidential campaigns.
From Seattle Times • May 21, 2024
"Conceding the two goals, it would be easy to drop our heads but I don't think we did that," the Spurs boss told BBC Sport.
From BBC • Aug. 13, 2023
Conceding a point in this case, he says: Mr. Lynch is correct in saying that the Mississippi senators at the time of the state election of 1875 were Alcorn and Bruce.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
