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[flee] / fli /


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Meanwhile, A-level student Dominic Abdullah was forced to flee shortly after he had got his results on Thursday.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Dozens queued on a pontoon at Fourka waiting to flee as smoke blotted out the sky over the resorts, according to images broadcast by ERT.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Opponents fear that billionaires will flee California and harm the economy.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Why would people want to flee their egos?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Had she been on the way home, or trying to make one last, desperate attempt to flee the city?

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Surprise, surprise: Tony doesn’t get the fellowship, and instead, flees his childhood home early in the morning to catch a bus and a ferry to Provincetown.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

Helped by a young girl, Paul flees from those who seek to exploit him.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The 2007 opening of FX’s groundbreaking legal drama “Damages,” in which Byrne’s young lawyer, Ellen Parsons, flees an uptown New York apartment building in which something terrible has clearly happened, sparked all manner of conversation.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 2026

This creates a rare market asymmetry: The public sees “bubble” and flees everything AI-related, while sophisticated capital is making precise bets on deflation survivors.

From MarketWatch Oct. 30, 2025

Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

The franchise fled further and further from coastal cultural centers, shifting from the “Real World” of New York City and Chicago to the air-conditioned enclaves of New Jersey and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

"Patients also fled the hospital, the jolt was big. I saw some walls were cracked," Lotar, a hospital customer service official told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

LeBron James has fled to the Eastern Conference but the Lakers remain a major box office ticket for the NBA.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Hundreds of former regime security officials fled to Russia, as well as Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates, when the regime crumbled.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

He has to flee back to a city that he’d already fled from.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Melania Nius was at her husband's hospital bedside on Indonesia's Flores island when a powerful quake shook their town to its core, sending patients fleeing into the chaos outside.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Edber said the court found her mental state played no role in the alleged crimes and denied her bail, noting she discussed on a jail call fleeing to her native Israel.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

It was with the help of other people fleeing el-Fasher that she was taken to receive medical help.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

The turning point was the 2015 crisis when more than one million people, most fleeing Syria’s civil war, poured into Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Below, a number of Huntsmen had separated from the band, and with great strides held to the track of the fleeing companions.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander




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