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Example sentences for: conceding

How can you use “conceding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But Starr couldn't say yes because he's said variations on no for months and would be conceding a public lie.
Thousands of U.S. journalists found excuses to spend the week there, playing up the possibilities of political confrontation and violence (China oafishly sent thousands of troops to show everyone who's the boss) before conceding that nothing was going to happen.
Instead of conceding, he redoubles his efforts.
The latter is not readily analyzable by normal parsing, for if we are drawn to retain the adjectival nature of stiff (instead of conceding that it might be used as an adverb), we are obliged to characterize worried as having taken on the guise of a copula.