escape
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But while “traumas” does seem extreme, it’s striking how many of the accounts he has gathered seem like a wounded soul’s quest for escape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
When the first wave may be only minutes away, the time to work out an escape route is before the emergency begins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
When 11-year-old Guadalupe Rosales needed somewhere to escape, she hid at the East Los Angeles Library.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
By pushing people to content they respond to emotionally, many say social media can drive us into "rabbit holes" that are difficult to escape.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Tiamat, however, was caught in the branches of a thorny bush, and her struggles to escape were only making the situation worse.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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He became an international superstar in 1935 in “Captain Blood,” as a wrongly accused doctor who escapes slavery and takes up piracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
In this setup, a laser continuously supplies additional photons to the cavity, while some light escapes through the partially reflecting mirrors.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
But Joshua produced one of the greatest escapes of his career, and now that fight is on.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Unlike Guzmán and his sons, who are known for more dramatic displays like prison escapes, Zambada worked more stealthily to avoid prison for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Where are the people swinging from subway poles and dancing on fire escapes and kissing in Times Square?
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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"All of us that escaped that day thought we'd done well, then about three or four years ago, we started developing these illnesses," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Now, researchers have identified an additional mechanism that had largely escaped attention: the electrical charge carried by water droplets.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Anthropic’s Claude also escaped a test environment, got online, and hacked into other organizations’ computer systems earlier this year.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
If you have somehow escaped the chicken bake’s orbit, imagine a long, golden-brown bread roll stuffed with chicken, bacon and a deeply creamy combination of Caesar dressing, mozzarella and Parmesan.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Along with a partner, he’d escaped from Devil’s Island, but he’d failed to make it to South America.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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It entered the headlines in July, when some 700 autonomous agents built by OpenAI breached the platform after escaping an isolated test environment.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The city’s priciest neighborhoods become particularly clogged each summer as drivers escaping the Gulf’s scorching heat arrive with Ferraris, Lamborghinis and McLarens bearing Middle East license plates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
But there is something else tied to his Jewish heritage that keeps things in perspective — the struggles his grandmother went through escaping liquidation at the hand of the Nazis in her Polish hometown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The nail-biting finale saw the two pairs jumping on an extraction plane from a beach in north Wales, narrowly escaping the hunters.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
As Jack held tight to the sword more and more cracks appeared, vapor escaping from each one.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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