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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

And both have ceded just 23 games total.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2022

They have deprived the nation of its docks, its arsenals, its fleets, its artillery, and the immense materiel which I had collected in the fortresses and the ports which they have ceded.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron