escape
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Flooding in Hengzhou city, Guangxi in early July caused hundreds of snakes to escape from a breeding farm.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Later studies by Wagner's group and other scientists showed that this shortening occurs across many types of cancer and may help tumors adapt, survive, and escape treatment.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Fortunately, the reported deal contains an escape clause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
"There are dogs here, people snoring," says the resident of the village of Chapineria, evacuated on Friday to escape to the out-of-control fire west of Madrid.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Sometimes I felt like my brain was one of those colanders our housekeeper, Mrs. Ellsworth, used to drain pasta, full of little holes that let all sorts of important things escape without my permission.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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There were some more positive voices, including Variety's Owen Gleiberman, external, who said it "escapes the remake blues - in fact it soars above them".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Panama is preparing to announce changes to its prison system in July following inmate escapes, while Honduras plans to purchase drones from Ukraine for its anti-drug efforts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
People celebrated on roofs, on fire escapes, at watch parties in parks and bars, at Radio City Music Hall, atop buses, on the balconies of Times Square hotels, on airplanes and in subway cars.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
Later Lisa, who often escapes but then allows herself to be brought back, snaps, “Who in their right mind would wanna live out there?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Madeline’s hand floats to her mouth as a sob escapes her lips.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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The most recent occurrence, in late 2015 and early 2016, resulted in an estimated $3.9 trillion in economic losses worldwide, though the U.S. escaped relatively unscathed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Of the 191 other red cards shown at a men's World Cup, only one other player has escaped a suspension.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
This year, visitors "have been telling me that they have escaped the heat in southern parts of Europe," said Terje Viblom Pedersen, a guide who offers tours in southeastern Sweden.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
The proposal follows an OpenAI disclosure that two of its AI models escaped a testing environment and compromised systems at Hugging Face.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
In Otsuchi, Ryoichi Usuzawa had found Taro and escaped the first wave by climbing onto his roof, carrying the dog.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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But Miles struggles futilely to stay at his desk, frequently escaping to explore Greensbury and to make the acquaintance of the town’s inhabitants, a decidedly quirky lot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
That distance was too great for the instrument to detect gamma rays coming from the planet, but scientists believed it might still register neutrons escaping from the Martian surface and atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
People in towns and villages around Madrid have been relaying their experiences of escaping the fires, some with just the clothes they were wearing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Officials evacuated the entire Cap Ferret peninsula on the south-west coast, with hundreds escaping by boat after flames swept through the popular tourist destination.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
She thought about pretending to be ill and escaping back to the castle, but Dvorah had put her coat somewhere and she didn’t know where.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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