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Many residents forced to flee their homes following the fires are still in the dark about when they can return.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, A-level student Dominic Abdullah was forced to flee shortly after he had got his results on Thursday.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

A witness alleged that the e-bike rider tried to flee but was detained by horrified onlookers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

France, which has already suffered a series of major fires this season, was facing another one in the southwest that has already forced more than 500 people to flee, officials said Friday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

They’re always poking around where any sensible person would flee.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Surprise, surprise: Tony doesn’t get the fellowship, and instead, flees his childhood home early in the morning to catch a bus and a ferry to Provincetown.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

After a failed engagement, Locksley flees the city to settle in a village on the Atlantic coast, where he allows his new neighbors to believe he is an impecunious artist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Metals traders lose at least $144 million as ‘Hat’ flees China.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026

As Jay flees Hollywood, the city and its people continue to haunt him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

John Carter flees the broken Confederacy for Mars.

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

He may have fled Pennsylvania and has ties to California and Nevada.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

They also cite the potential for what is known as “chain refoulement,” when asylum seekers and refugees are sent by the third country back to the home from which they originally fled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Ghana has faced legal suits over accusations that is has forced deportees from the US back to countries they fled, in violation of their rights.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Demographer Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos estimates it is now as low as eight million, only slightly more than 67 years ago, when Fidel Castro declared, "The tyrant has fled... the revolution has triumphed!"

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

The birds erupted into a feathery whirlwind, cawing and chirping as they fled toward all exits.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

A police pursuit early Wednesday through Los Angeles ended in dramatic fashion when the fleeing vehicle smashed into a row of parked cars, injuring the driver and scattering glass and debris across the road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Rescuers combed through debris for survivors Saturday after a powerful earthquake struck off Flores island in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 20 people and sending thousands fleeing.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

It was with the help of other people fleeing el-Fasher that she was taken to receive medical help.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

The turning point was the 2015 crisis when more than one million people, most fleeing Syria’s civil war, poured into Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

A mother was fleeing with one child over her shoulder and another holding her hand, and they zigged around a burning section of grass and came right at us.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia