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have ceded

  • present perfect of cede.

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The shiny-faced, spaced-out humans of 2024 have ceded their place to an expanded host of critters, letting Coke dodge the “uncanny valley” where nearly real simulations of people wind up unsettling viewers.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 3, 2025

But by failing to develop the former, they have ceded geometric and psychic space to the latter.

From Slate Oct. 21, 2024

And while Cerundolo put the onus on the official, he also thought Rune could have ceded the point because of the double-bounce.

From Washington Times Jun. 5, 2023

This unsettling 2021 book by a Moscow correspondent for the New Yorker gathers profiles of Russians who have ceded some of their ethics and freedoms to Putin.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2022

Had Prussia been a raw, weak power in September, 1866, she must have ceded some territory to France.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin