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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But to codify the auto-bid model would be waving the white flag and accepting a lower status.
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Chris Vannini, New York Times, 10 July 2025
But such findings are scant enough that a year before the conference, several high-profile academics published an article whose opening reads like a waving of the white flag for psychiatry itself.
—Andrew Kay, Harpers Magazine, 28 May 2025
Louisville leaders announce white flag conditions Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said in a post to X, formerly Twitter, that white flag operations will be executed in the coming days due to cold temperatures and snowfall.
—Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
That doesn’t mean Disney and Pixar are waving the white flag of surrender and banishing original storytelling to the hinterlands.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
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Chris Vannini, New York Times, 10 July 2025
But such findings are scant enough that a year before the conference, several high-profile academics published an article whose opening reads like a waving of the white flag for psychiatry itself.
—Andrew Kay, Harpers Magazine, 28 May 2025
Louisville leaders announce white flag conditions Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said in a post to X, formerly Twitter, that white flag operations will be executed in the coming days due to cold temperatures and snowfall.
—Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
That doesn’t mean Disney and Pixar are waving the white flag of surrender and banishing original storytelling to the hinterlands.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
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“White flag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20flag. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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