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The phrase "act of surrender" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing yielding, giving up, or submitting to authority or circumstances.
Example: "The act of surrender was a pivotal moment in the negotiations, leading to a peaceful resolution."
Alternatives: "gesture of capitulation" or "deed of submission."
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The performance is a fearless act of surrender.
All this may look like defiance, but it's really an act of surrender.
Abandoning democratic institutions in the face of terrorism is an act of surrender.
It was not quite an act of surrender, although it had a pleading touch.
In slow, backward-arching lunges, the dancers lift their arms to the sky — an act of surrender, or supplication.
In slow, backward-arching lunges, the dancers lift their arms to the sky an act of surrender, or supplication.
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Witnesses had testified that Brown was in the act of surrendering.
This, in the end, is the unforgivable act of intellectual surrender.
With the Yankees, George Steinbrenner was strictly a one-man show until it became an act of physical surrender to Hank and Hal.
But the manner in which their heads dropped, an act of blatant surrender, when Álvaro Morata opened the scoring late in the first half said much more.
On one hand, Seattle's actions were the latest act of political surrender to big business; on the other, activists across the country rightly took New York's resistance as proof that a better world without capitalist extortion of public resources is possible.
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