escapologist
Example Sentences
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We asked Harry Nardi, a 24-year-old escapologist who was named after the performer.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2023
Yet her portrait of this womanizing, "self-destroyed escapologist" is softened by her high regard for his lush language.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2016
There were other calamities, too, from which Bowie, ever the escapologist, managed to flee unscathed, and even with his reputation—or his catalogue of hits—enhanced.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2016
Houdini turned to debunking mediums in his middle age as his career as an escapologist went into decline.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2014
In 1939, as Chabon tells it, the golem's enormous coffin provides the means for young Jewish artist and escapologist Josef Kavalier to escape German-annexed Prague for the States.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2010
