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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

But Nazanin has succumbed to a destiny that’s not her own.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2025

Some critics ask why the city has succumbed to being a focal point of “conspiracy tourism,” while former state legislator Helen Giddings is among those posing an even deeper question:

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

The market has succumbed to the Fed and is now pricing U.S. interest rates to stay above 5% for the year.

From Reuters • Feb. 17, 2023

So my hair has succumbed to the lack of maintenance that exists when the world doesn’t judge you by it.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali