decamp
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The decision by the Sussexes to decamp from Montecito to England has flummoxed royal watchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Then, of course, there is the added perk of the private beach, a rare draw in an area where Manhattanites regularly decamp during the warmer summer months.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
"They'd just decamp to Manchester and you wouldn't see them again until Tuesday or Wednesday the next week, looking like they'd had quite a good time."
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
Barron’s Karishma Vanjani writes that overseas investors’ desire to decamp from Treasuries is already a concern.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
The principal spoke with such gravity that Christine and her classmates worried they might have to pack up their books and decamp for the other side of town at that very moment.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Trump has referred to the 504-acre property that he purchased in 2002 as his Summer White House, and he frequently decamps there for the weekends when it is too hot in Palm Beach, Fla.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Exhibit A: the band decamps to New Orleans to record their next record.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
Dudamel is 42 years old, and will have been at the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 17 years by the time he decamps for New York, a long tenure.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2023
The London displays wrap up on Tuesday, when the fashion crowd decamps to Milan Fashion Week for more new season runway shows.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
Just as soon as the Bear's nose and forepaws are greedily inserted into the crack, Reynard slyly removes the wedges and decamps, leaving the Bear a prisoner and howling with pain.
From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
In nearby Habana Vieja, the historic city center, nine families who decamped from a collapsed building three years ago are still living in a boxing gym.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Anthropic, founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei and others who decamped from OpenAI, raised $65 billion from investors including Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Sequoia Capital and others, about half OpenAI’s tally that closed earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Such caution frustrated a number of company researchers, some of whom decamped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
Administration officials would not immediately confirm whether the troops had decamped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
At the semester break every spring when Oppenheimer decamped for Caltech, the entourage followed him south in a caravan of rickety vehicles.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Finch had emerged from the lowest level of college basketball imaginable, playing at Division III Franklin & Marshall before decamping to the steel town in Yorkshire to keep his playing career alive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
If the music world is decamping from London again this week, then it needs to "give back to the community", she adds, and not just pay it "lip service".
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
For its part, Netflix has generated a handful of blockbuster franchises, including “Squid Game,” “Bridgerton” and “Stranger Things,” but the creators of the last series are decamping to Paramount.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
Immigration and births aren’t keeping up with the Golden Staters decamping for Texas and other states that boast a better cost of living.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025
Denis had taken off his hat, and muttering something about his wife, and "good morning, yer riverence," was decamping towards Ballycloran.
From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope
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