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And it is not just Korean companies that have capitulated.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2025

“Here, we have capitulated to a ‘heckler’s veto’ before the fact,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2024

But while most of the Afghan army has melted away, not all Afghans have capitulated to the Taliban.

From Washington Times • Oct. 6, 2021

Or else Goodell himself was supposed to have capitulated by now, admitting that the league didn’t have enough hard evidence to punish Brady.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2015

Indeed, many of the lesser poets have capitulated to overtures of tolerance and not-too-curious inquiry into their private beliefs on the part of the church.

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth