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

given way (to)

verb

past participle of give way (to)

as in taken out

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Cudi claims that those not close to Ye can’t see the progress he’s made on his mental health; early this year, Ye apologized in an ad taken out of the WSJ in January for his antisemitic behavior.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
After being taken out at halftime, all six players cheered on the backups and joked with each other about everything and nothing.

— Caleb Otte, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 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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