GAVE WAY (TO) Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

gave way (to)

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past tense of give way (to)

as in took out

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Only borrowers who took out or consolidated federal loans before July 1, 2026, can select SRP, while the Tiered Standard Plan is available to older and newer borrowers.

— Maya Benjamin,Dan Avery, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
The second policy was the one Lewis took out on himself on May 15, 1975.

— Annalise Peterson, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2026

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But Onslaught doesn’t interrogate or even look at the military industrial complex with much interest beyond the notion that its fictional super soldiers were created to be unleashed upon civilian populaces.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
And these startling figures do not reflect the food crises that could be unleashed this year by rising energy and fertilizer prices, decreases in grain exports from Russia and Ukraine, and an intensifying El Niño weather pattern.

— Anna Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026

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