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fleeing

noun as in running away

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Other footage shows him fleeing, keeping to a quick walk, jogging briefly, then walking again as he heads for a subway station.

In his backpack, which police say he dropped before fleeing, they recovered three hammers in plastic wrapping.

Embracing those fleeing war in the Middle East would come at a high political, economic, and (potentially) public health cost.

As Europe closes its shores to immigrants and refugees, the pope asks for welcome of the stranger fleeing war.

Fleeing their homes, many Syrians left behind middle-class lives; most arrived with none of the mementos that stir memory.

Mankind, mad with the energy of activity, would be seen to pursue the fleeing phantom of insatiable desire.

Hilda and Edwin rushed fleeing into the street, violently urged by a common impulse.

Here at nine o'clock at night he surprised Coffee in camp, routing him, his men fleeing in confusion.

How long shall I see men fleeing away, how long shall I hear the sound of the trumpet?

The gray sedan in which the fleeing criminals were riding had vanished, apparently into thin air.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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