escort
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At the hospital, Jack learns that the man behind the wheel was Governor George McRyan, a presidential hopeful polling extremely well in the primaries, who left a campaign event with Sally as his escort.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
According to Britain and France, the warships could also escort some 2,000 tankers and cargo ships waiting to transit out of the Gulf.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
The officers remove Strickland and began to escort him out of the event.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
Serco has a prisoner escort and custody services contract with the Ministry of Justice across the south of England.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
He agreed, and said he would go to Athens himself and escort her.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
And then “San Marcos el Fin” gently escorts the listener out of this particular room.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
That refers to a “first group” of tankers or ship operators willing to cross the strait, likely with naval coordination and escorts.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
We need a coordinated maritime security framework that goes beyond reactionary naval escorts to include long-term diplomatic and economic safeguards.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
They said there was no current plan for the kind of complex escorts that in dozens of missions starting in 1987 put Navy ships directly in Iran’s firing line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
At 7:00 the next morning, several non-coms, who were to be our escorts, arrived at our barracks.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
That night, they were escorted onto the baseball diamond in an armored car with a security detail of some 200 police officers in tow.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
On the eve of her race at the competition in Edinburgh, she was banned from competing and escorted from the athletes' village by police.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
For a second I felt a little like those big-spending, frequent-flying VIPs who are escorted to planes when they have a tight connection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
The whistleblower, a code enforcement officer, was escorted from City Hall the day after she filed the complaint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
It rode down empty highways in a fireproof, waterproof case, escorted by Secret Service agents.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
The U.S. seems to be escorting some tankers through the Strait, and Central Command’s Adm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Nagraj, 46, managed the paid caregivers working at his in-laws’ house while coordinating doctors’ appointments for his father-in-law, and escorting him to them.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Local villagers whom he regularly employs to assist him in escorting groups up Dukono also did not tell him anything about the prohibition, he added.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
Navy began escorting commercial ships through the strait.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
“He’s escorting me to the Parque Central. Now he can escort the two of us!”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 26–31
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