Example Sentences

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Hartnett predicts that if Friday’s CPI release for September is 3% or cooler, then bond vigilantes — investors who sell government bonds because they disapprove of its fiscal policies — will capitulate.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 24, 2025

“At some point all these publishers will capitulate to ad tech or they will not have ads,” said Jonathan Mendez, founder of Yieldbot, which helps publishers manage data.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2015

I predict that by the end of the month we'll be in complete control of Paris, Marseille will capitulate.

From Time Magazine Archive

“If you regard our friendship in such a serious light,” she resumed, whilst a slight blush suffused her cheeks, “I will capitulate on condition that our little quarrel of last night be forgotten and forgiven.”

From Major Frank by Akeroyd, James

I never meet him but that he announces to me that Paris will capitulate the next day.

From Parisian Points of View by Matthews, Edith V. B.