white flag
noun
1
: a flag of plain white used as a flag of truce or as a token of surrender
2
: a token of weakness or yielding
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The key is not to wave a white flag before the roll has been completed.
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Jay Paris, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
The Brewers waved the white flag, putting first basemen Owen Miller on the mound in the ninth inning.
—James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2024
With the wave of a figurative white flag, could gentle parenting be moving to the fringes of the parenting zeitgeist alongside helicopter and snowplow parenting — philosophies that encouraged parents to hover over their child and remove all obstacles from their path?
—Lynda Lin Grigsby, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024
According to one account, Little Thunder approached Harney holding an umbrella as a makeshift white flag.
—Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Jay Paris, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
The Brewers waved the white flag, putting first basemen Owen Miller on the mound in the ninth inning.
—James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2024
With the wave of a figurative white flag, could gentle parenting be moving to the fringes of the parenting zeitgeist alongside helicopter and snowplow parenting — philosophies that encouraged parents to hover over their child and remove all obstacles from their path?
—Lynda Lin Grigsby, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024
According to one account, Little Thunder approached Harney holding an umbrella as a makeshift white flag.
—Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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“White flag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20flag. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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