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Friday, September 2, 2011

#3 Concede

From Scott Beason's USA Today 8/30/11 editorial titled, "We're protecting our citizens:"

"Illegal-immigration policy is an emotionally charged issue, and passions run high on both sides. Most reasonable people concede the need to secure the borders. For that matter, most people agree that the federal government should enforce its laws."

Suggest a synonym for concede....


Concede: to acknowledge as true; admit; yield
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 3, 2011 at 6:53 PM

    Accept or even acknowledge could have been used instead of concede.

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  2. JHMSeptember 4, 2011 at 10:02 PM

    Thanks for comment; hope you'll stop by again.

    Maureen Dowd, NY Times op-ed columnist, wrote on 9/3,
    "MSNBC’s Matt Miller offered “a public service” to journalists talking about Obama — a list of synonyms for cave: “Buckle, fold, concede, bend, defer, submit, give in, knuckle under, kowtow, surrender, yield, comply, capitulate.”

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