escape
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Five days after Samba’s escape, around dawn, a team of 20 zookeepers descended on a bush in the local woods, following a sighting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Ice recalls fumbling with the door in the smoke-engulfed room as he tried to escape.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
They squeeze enormous amounts of mass into an incredibly small region, creating gravity so intense that not even light can escape.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
The Pegulas picked up the warm-weather escape in the popular vacation destination in 2005 for $4,075,000.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
I cannot back them up so I take a small bow saw and cut through the tree, which allows the sled to escape.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
That’s how a coach escapes bad publicity for chasing off a player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
"He has this happy place where he goes into... This is where he escapes to mentally in times of stress, pressure, anxiety or chaos," Swift told Apple Music's Zane Lowe.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Panama is preparing to announce changes to its prison system in July following inmate escapes, while Honduras plans to purchase drones from Ukraine for its anti-drug efforts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
While she never escapes the gravitational pull of her own gendered perspective, Ms. Saxbe nonetheless posits fresh approaches on how men parent and where they might improve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Instead a faint sigh escapes me, and heat rushes into my cheeks, embarrassment.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
They had to wait hours before they learned their property had escaped the fire.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
While few assets have escaped the current euphoria, the S&P 400 has risen considerably less in the last few years than the S&P 500.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
This setup allowed the researchers to measure how much carbon and nitrogen escaped under conditions similar to those found in the deep ocean.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Dennis, who barely escaped after stumbling into that realm through a hidden portal, hoped never to return.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
As the reactors melted down at Fukushima Daiichi, workers in and around the plant took regular readings to determine how much radioactivity had escaped.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Until now, scientists have not fully understood how α-synuclein enters healthy neurons after escaping from dying ones.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The regulator later required a redesign of the engine nacelle—its protective casing—to prevent debris from escaping in the case of a catastrophic failure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Wherever you go in Mexico City, there is no escaping the anticipation as match time approaches.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
But then he struck out three of the next four, escaping the jam down just 1-0, courtesy of an RBI single from Gavin Sheets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
So when she began making noises again about our family escaping to the Soviet Union, I made more excuses.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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