decamp
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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
That’s doubtful given that it has already spurred many billionaires to decamp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Barron’s Karishma Vanjani writes that overseas investors’ desire to decamp from Treasuries is already a concern.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
Gates was now in his senior year, and somehow he managed to convince his teachers to let him decamp for Bonneville under the guise of an independent study project.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Exhibit A: the band decamps to New Orleans to record their next record.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
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
After a series of unfortunate events, Francine decamps to a hotel, where for the first time she becomes aware of her own existence, her own body, the beating of her heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
Ayush goes for a kingside break, but after White’s king decamps for the queenside, it is the Black king who comes under fire.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
Families frequently leave their own headman and flee to another village, and sometimes a whole village decamps by night, leaving the headman by himself.
From A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 by Livingstone, David
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
Administration officials would not immediately confirm whether the troops had decamped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
Days before the attack, however, they had decamped to a short-term rental in Campsie - about 30 minutes closer to the beach, media reports said.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
Nora and Agnes were young when their father, a modestly well-regarded art-house filmmaker, decamped to a different country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
But I wondered whether Davis had really quit the internet entirely, or whether he’d just decamped to some farther shore.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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He later relocated to Paris and became a film producer and distributor, before decamping to Mexico in 1938, just before the outbreak of World War II.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
On decamping they compelled the owner to horse his waggons and take them to their next quarters.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
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