egress
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In real fires, with darkness, smoke, people in various states of injury impeding one another, falls on stairs, counterflows and hesitation, theoretical egress capacities inferred from other evacuations break down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026
The roads on either side of a bridge that serves as the sole artery allowing entrance and egress to the neighborhood were washed out, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
Those specific locations would contribute to modulating the viral replication cycle, adaptability, and path of entry and egress.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024
Those who egress from cults are often assisted by former fellow cult members.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023
The egress order had been determined years earlier.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
But now it has become almost a regular occurrence, as winds and new tidal currents trap an overflow of water behind the lagoon's three egresses.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was plunged in a state of ecstasy, when suddenly, from the rear of the artificial rockery, egressed a person, who approached her and facing her said, "My respects to you, sister-in-law."
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
On inquiry we learn that since the fire at the Tower he has secluded himself in his own Harmer-y, and has not egressed from “Ingress Abbey,” for fear of incendiaries.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 by Various
But after a brief interval, they egressed with the basins and rinsing cups.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
Madame Wang and Li Wan, lady Feng, Pao Ch'ai and the other young ladies noticed, meanwhile, that the doctor had gone, and they eventually egressed from the back of the mosquito-house.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
Lady Feng thereupon egressed from the room in the inner end and interposed her remarks.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
This effected, we blocked up its egressing mouth, that, should our escape be discovered, the enemy might not find the direct road we had taken.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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