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Definition
to yield or admit — usually after dispute
- Seven percent of the men conceded that they were married, with a significant minority of these men reporting that they were "happily married."p. 79.6
- "I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed," said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun in 1994, nearly twenty years after he had voted for its reinstatement.p. 124.5
- He concedes that outrage and hazard do not carry equal weight in his risk equation.p. 152.7
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