Inch and Yield

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Inch verb - To advance gradually beyond the usual or desirable limits.

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Yield and inch are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Yield" instead a verb "Inch".

Nearby Word: inched

Yield verb - To give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit).

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Inch and yield are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Inch" instead a verb "Yield".

Nearby Words: yielding, yielded

And even when dying, she stares her killer defiantly in the eye and refuses to yield an inch.

Source: Plucky Girl
Naturally, the questioner and everyone else around will pronounce the name perfectly, hang lampshades about it, and not yield an inch.

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That these two would not yield an inch from their stances is why Twice Upon a Time was unavailable for television airing or home video release after 1998—any attempt to show or distribute the movie would lead to the person responsible for the other cut theatening legal action.

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