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The art of admitting defeat before the math forces you to say it out loud.

means Something you give up or grant to someone else, often grudgingly, in order to reach an agreement or keep the peace.

from From Latin concessio, built on concedere — 'to go along with, yield, grant' — itself from com- (altogether) plus cedere ('to go, withdraw, yield'), the same root that gives us 'cede' and 'precede.' The word has long carried a double life: in politics and negotiation it means yielding ground, while by the 1800s it also came to mean the literal stand or booth granted the right to sell food at a venue — both senses tracing back to that same idea of someone 'granting' you a bit of territory.

origin
from Latin for yielding, not losing
political ritual
no law actually requires giving one
stadium twist
also where nachos cost more than tickets
2000 election
Gore conceded, then un-conceded, same night
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