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Discover LudwigThe phrase "act of surrendering" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the process or decision of giving up or yielding, often in a formal or serious manner.
Example: "The act of surrendering was a difficult choice for the general, but it was necessary to save his troops."
Alternatives: "gesture of capitulation" or "process of yielding".
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Witnesses had testified that Brown was in the act of surrendering.
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The performance is a fearless act of surrender.
Abandoning democratic institutions in the face of terrorism is an act of surrender.
All this may look like defiance, but it's really an act of surrender.
In slow, backward-arching lunges, the dancers lift their arms to the sky — an act of surrender, or supplication.
A victory in the war against terrorism can never be registered in a formal act of surrender.
He compared the act of surrender in a chapel to what happens to a person when they surrender to the doctor.
The goal is to get people to gain control over their lives, but it all begins with an act of surrender and an admission of weakness.
For Israelis could see this as an act of surrender, an incentive not for peace but for more seizure of Palestinian land and total suffocation of Palestinian life.
He must have been highly tempted to pick it up and throw it in front of the umpire as an act of surrender.
She affects an arch carelessness to shore up her already established paternal approval; and yet she does care, so the act of surrender is both cowardly and inauthentic.
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