escapes

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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

People celebrated on roofs, on fire escapes, at watch parties in parks and bars, at Radio City Music Hall, atop buses, on the balconies of Times Square hotels, on airplanes and in subway cars.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2026

The same idea explains how cars move, how people row boats, and why a balloon shoots forward when air escapes from its opening.

From Science Daily • Jun. 16, 2026

At his White House swearing-in ceremony last month, Warsh said, “I will lead a reform oriented Federal Reserve” that learns “from past successes and mistakes” and escapes “static frameworks and models.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

He died in captivity, but the profits of that struggle and others like it are ours, even when the object of our struggle, as is so often true, escapes our grasp.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates