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Definition

to yield or admit — usually after dispute

The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose

It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
There are also many modifications of language, which we concede to the poets.
Aristotle -- The Poetics of Aristotle
If you'll concede the necessity of going to school, we'll go on reading every night just as we always have.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

concede = admit (or yield to)

"Yes, he's a good boy," conceded Francie, "but even if he was bad, you wouldn't notice it."
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

conceded = admitted

concede = admit (yield to the idea)

I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road

concede = admit

conceded = admitted

"He might have hurt me a little," Atticus conceded, "but son, you'll understand folks a little better when you're older."
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

conceded = admitted

It was all right to shut him up, Mr. Radley conceded, but insisted that Boo not be charged with anything: he was not a criminal.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

conceded = accepted

You must concede that there are abuses...
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
I always suppose anything people please, and, besides, you must concede something to diseased minds.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
"Maybe," conceded Max, cheered a bit by her optimism.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
In conceding all this, the question of expense must be given up.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
Henry David Thoreau -- Resistance to Civil Government
"I suppose I could pull a few strings," she conceded.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
She nodded "I concede the point.
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
"It was partly to get you to do something," I conceded.
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
"It is very warm for chicken," Mum conceded.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
Ned Land conceded this himself.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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