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hideout

[hahyd-aut] / ˈhaɪdˌaʊt /


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After a tipoff, intelligence services and police found two handguns and ammunition stashed in a hideout in the forest, Dobrindt said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Tana had an unusual path to becoming the restaurant owner of the renowned Hollywood red-sauce hideout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Military spokesperson Lt-Col Haruna M Sani described the assault on Boko Haram's Mandara mountain hideout, "under cover of darkness", as one of the military's "most significant hostage rescue operations" in the north-east.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

When police came to arrest her, Klette managed to send off a text message to Garweg, allowing him to escape from his Berlin hideout.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

I had two spares stowed in my hideout.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Abia state police commissioner Wilfred Afolabi said the operation was part of an ongoing campaign to dismantle criminal hideouts in the state.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Scott has helped me understand that they remain hideouts and redoubts where we can still hope to find practices of liberty today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

"United, we must respond to those facilitating them -- whether the hideouts are on our soil or Afghan soil."

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025

People Over Papers channels that same logic — only now the hideouts are ICE-free zones, mutual aid hubs and sanctuary spaces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

He’d probably stay away all day, holed up in one of his secret hideouts.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn


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