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Recent Examples of give over Only nine of his top 100 donors were from California, giving over $8 million combined, or just 5% of the $161 million haul from his largest givers. Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024 There is so much of the city that has given over to the wicked history of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Shannon Carlin, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024 Surrounded by Corylus trees and mountain streams, Adem’s childhood was one that saw his entire family work on a 150 acre farm, much of it given over to hazelnut trees (some 4.8m in fact). Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 From the bottom of Central Park down to 42nd Street, five lanes will become three, one of them given over to buses. Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for give over 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for give over
Verb
  • Donations dwindle, while volunteers from the opposite side of the country stop coming or divert to another disaster.
    Jess Craig, Vox, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Johnny can’t stop holding onto his baggage with Kreese, but Daniel is dealing with something even bigger.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The Lakers were already down several bodies in their frontcourt, with Christian Wood (offseason left knee surgery) and Jarred Vanderbilt (offseason feet surgery) sidelined, leaving two-way center Christian Koloko as the only available big man behind Davis.
    Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The callers reported seeing a man armed with a gun fleeing a silver sedan that was left disabled in a parking lot, authorities said.
    Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • People also could order food online to pick up at different locations with the Order Ahead program, but that service will cease when the Feed Rogers building opens and people can shop for their own food again.
    Gael Langdon, arkansasonline.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But as Trump’s presidency went on and his comments and actions didn’t cease to shock, Weymar and her Tiny Pricks community remained as emboldened as ever to bear witness to and record the political climate through craft.
    Gabby Shacknai, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Optimistically, handing influence over this conference to the UAE, and now Azerbaijan—states whose interests are, in many ways, opposed to its aim—means that leaders who depend on fossil fuels must face the costs of burning them.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Seeing those pills be made and being able to hand them out onstage at Defcon in Las Vegas.
    Jorge Just, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Next week: Mesa Ridge at Montrose, TBA No. 3 Pueblo West beat No. 19 Golden, 49-7: Two weeks removed from their first loss of the season, the Cyclones ended a streak of three straight Round of 16 exits with a rout of Golden.
    Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Mikael Granlund and William Eklund scored for the Sharks, who ended their road trip against Metropolitan Division teams with a 1-1-2 record.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Indigenous art collector and dealer Herman Schweizer was given the task of stocking the venues with enticing items.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Pullins did not give a timeline for Householder's clemency request.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The Biden administration has ramped up efforts that have so far failed to secure cease-fires to end Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza and secure the release of hostages still held by Hamas, as well as halt Israel’s bombardment and fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The plane maker had seen most of its airplane production halted since the middle of September as more than 32,000 of its unionized machinists went on strike .
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Birds who pushed the door to the right were transferred into aviaries where the resident birds were pushing the door on the left and vice versa.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The woman was transferred to a psychiatric hospital, raising concerns for her safety.
    Hannah Peart, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024

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“Give over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/give%20over. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.

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