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evacuate

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Late last year, the city moved employees into the downtown high-rise, only to evacuate them a few weeks later after the building was declared a public nuisance.

So far, five people have died in the fires and more than 119,000 others have had to evacuate from their homes.

From Fortune

After the city evacuated the building, Faulconer initiated a forensic review and tapped three outside law firms to address different aspects of the overall project.

The city responded by voluntarily shutting down the building and evacuating employees who had already moved in.

Most critically, the county identified that one of the project’s two routes, West Lilac Road, presents an entrapment risk in the event people need to evacuate for a wildfire.

But where do you evacuate to, when the world is about to end?

De Merode was ordered to evacuate the national park he served at the time.

He was helping to evacuate people from the stricken North Tower when the second plane hit.

There is no plan as of yet to evacuate Dr. Brantly to a Western facility, Isaacs said.

Earlier this month, the friendliest of them, 31-year-old Denis, told us they were given very short notice to evacuate Sloviansk.

The leaguers were now anxious to co-operate with the Americans in compelling the Spaniards to evacuate the Archipelago.

The commander-in-chief overrated the fighting qualities of the Neapolitan troops and thought it prudent to evacuate Rome.

The situation was hopeless; the only wise course was to evacuate all garrisons in Germany and retire on the Saale.

Consequently, he had his lighter baggage moved and had his troops evacuate the area.

At the same time also Ibrahim Pacha was directed by his father to evacuate Syria.

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On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to evacuate, such as: abandon, depart, desert, discharge, displace, and expel.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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