as in ceding
to give over the legal possession or ownership of
the philanthropist unexpectedly deeded his entire fortune to the animal shelter
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Stalin invaded in November of 1939, expecting a quick takeover, but the Finns inflicted many times more casualties on the Soviets before eventually ceding 11 percent of their territory and partial control over their foreign affairs.—
Boris Fishman,
Travel + Leisure,
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Maybe these choices aren’t driven by a fear of ceding audience attention to TikTok so much as by fear of letting a taut story go slack.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
4 Feb. 2026
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The 6-foot-2 guard/forward is in his first season with the Cougars after transferring from Andrean last spring.—
Michael Osipoff,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
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Few knew what kind of influence the 7-4 center would have after transferring from Boston and missing a year because of a knee injury.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Effectively, Newsom’s slow roll protects him from taking any meaningful actions, thus bequeathing reparations to his successor, like his many other unresolved California issues.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Rewriting society’s decision-making Unlike biased pundits who hem, haw and hedge their bets, Web3 prediction markets cut through noise, bequeathing a signal that feeds into pricing mechanisms themselves.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Sep. 2025
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Instead the issue lies in assigning ownership of solutions.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
18 Feb. 2026
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Ochoa also cautioned against assigning major projects to smaller companies lacking technical capacity, pointing to the Petrocedeño project, which was previously operated by France’s TotalEnergies and Norway’s Equinor.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
17 Feb. 2026
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The Buffalo Bills lasted seven weeks in the pole position before relinquishing the title to the Kansas City Chiefs.—
Scott Phillips,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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Hamas has shown no signs of relinquishing power or its weapons.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Deeding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deeding. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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