caved

past tense of cave

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Verb
  • Participants will have to stick to an average speed of below 50 kilometers an hour, on roads open to regular traffic, and will be submitted to time controls, passage checks, average speed trials and regularity trials.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 3 July 2026
  • McClure said Jefferson worked on the draft in between other obligations, and on June 28, the committee submitted it to Congress.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
Verb
  • Engelbert capitulated hours after Thomas, a lightning rod for controversy following her latest violent on-court altercation with Caitlin Clark, cast herself as the victim.
    Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • As Bangkok, Jakarta and Seoul capitulated one after another, the shockwaves rattled the global economy.
    William Pesek, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
Verb
  • The game was beset with performance issues, to the point where even high-end gaming PCs were struggling to achieve decent frame rates and about the only way to make the game playable was to rely on super-powerful cloud gaming rigs.
    Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • An American experiment that seems, once again, beset by argument – over what that country is, who belongs to it and whether its oldest institutions can hold.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 2 July 2026
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“Caved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caved. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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