How to Use admit defeat in a Sentence

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• But rather than admit defeat in this area and move on, FAM doubles down.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2022
• Others won’t admit defeat, even when there isn’t a soul in line for tickets.
  — Debbi Snook, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
• Bosses are clinging to the success of the past, workers refuse to go back, and no one is willing to admit defeat.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2022
• The Durbin Amendment has not worked out so well for consumers–and Congress should have repealed it in 2017–but Durbin and his acolytes are not about to admit defeat.
  — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• Most admit defeat right then and there, halfway knowing that the sale might as well have fallen through already.
  — Solomon Thimothy, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• The presidential election has been called for Joe Biden, but Donald Trump and his team are not quite ready to admit defeat.
  — Britni De La Cretaz, refinery29.com, 11 Nov. 2020
• This is the first national election since the cataclysm of 2020 when Trump refused to admit defeat and tried to stay in power.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022
• The ability to admit defeat and not make excuses is not only important in sports, but in life.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
• Bashmakova, who was clear and direct in her protest, would not admit defeat so easily.
  — Markus Ziener, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
• Never one to admit defeat, Picard amassed his own scrappy crew over the next few episodes for his unauthorized rescue mission.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
• To accept the impossibility of treatment is to admit defeat, which most people are loathe to do.
  — L.s. Dugdale, STAT, 27 Nov. 2020
• Instead the drama remains mostly psychological, as hunger takes its toll and the holdouts one by one admit defeat, with the ailing Numo among the last of them.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
• Once hitting an ideas wall, amateurs will admit defeat.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• Taft won the nomination, yet Roosevelt refused to admit defeat, claiming the entire nominating process was fixed from the start.
  — Time, 15 Nov. 2022
• Either way, the app creators are surprisingly willing to admit defeat.
  — Clive Thompson, Wired, 27 July 2021
• Or even if Trump’s rivals beat him in early primary contests, how will party officials get the former president to admit defeat?
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 29 June 2023
• They’ve also been forced to defend that decision because Virginia officials have decided to keep fighting rather than admit defeat.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• Weeks before Trump left office, still refusing to admit defeat, Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested creation of a commission to assess his fitness to serve.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 10 July 2021
• The American military, meanwhile, suggested that to pursue détente was to admit defeat.
  — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• But giving Biden daily intelligence briefings does not require him to admit defeat.
  — The Editors, National Review, 12 Nov. 2020
• The president is a misinformation superspreader, as The Washington Post and others have documented, and loath to admit defeat.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2020
• Democrats may not admit defeat until the last day of September, when this year’s reconciliation resolution expires.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• After one fight ended ambiguously, Mr. Inoki chose to admit defeat, satisfying Pakistani fans’ urge for a homegrown victor, according to a 2014 profile in Grantland.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024