submissions

plural of submission
as in surrenders
the usually forced yielding of one's person or possessions to the control of another the judge ordered the submission of all of the company's records to the prosecutors

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Recent Examples of submissions Those submissions can help investigators uncover new evidence, especially in cases that have remained unsolved for years. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026 The program also provides support for five Moroccan short films in post-production—four fiction and one documentary—selected from among 24 submissions. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026 The Cinegouna Funding strand is hosting 19 projects this year, 13 films in development and six in postproduction, selected from 300 submissions. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 However, if a performer like Fielder did want to still try and go for it, the Actor Awards do have a petition process governed by their Awards Committee, who determine all the rules and regulations, eligibility and submissions. — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026 During the financial crisis, regulators became aware that some banks were making artificially low Libor submissions to make their institutions seem more creditworthy, or submitting fake numbers to achieve a rate that better suited them. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 GPTZero also scanned 300 of the roughly 20,000 submissions to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) and found more than 50 hallucinated citations. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 In fact, when the Chicago Horror Film Festival begins Friday at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema in Lakeview, its schedule of 150 films — mostly shorts, a few features — will have been culled from more than 650 submissions. — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026 But commissioners were not convinced that 450 submissions from residents necessarily meant that the name should be set in stone. — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
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surrenders
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  • The surrenders reflect a broader challenge the organization is seeing among pet owners, as rising veterinary and other care costs, along with housing restrictions, put increasing pressure on families trying to care for their animals.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Animal shelters across Maryland are calling for donations, adoptions and volunteers amid an uptick in pet surrenders this summer.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

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“Submissions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submissions. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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