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Whales seem less inclined to flee from electric boats, said marine scientist Giulia Ercoletti, now the head of training at Brim.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Dozens queued on a pontoon at Fourka waiting to flee as smoke blotted out the sky over the resorts, according to images broadcast by ERT.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Visitors staying in campgrounds and hotels were forced to flee the area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Keegan Radomski is one of thousands who have had to flee their homes in Summerland, a town on the Okanagan Lake just south of Peachland.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Every rustle of leaves made her want to flee back to Ambuya's arms.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

It ends 80 years later when his grandson Emanuel, the head of the family business, flees the new Bolshevik regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

This creates a rare market asymmetry: The public sees “bubble” and flees everything AI-related, while sophisticated capital is making precise bets on deflation survivors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2025

I expect him to attack Hel, but he rolls away and flees into the night, still grinning, Zak close behind.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

The franchise fled further and further from coastal cultural centers, shifting from the “Real World” of New York City and Chicago to the air-conditioned enclaves of New Jersey and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

"Patients also fled the hospital, the jolt was big. I saw some walls were cracked," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

LeBron James has fled to the Eastern Conference but the Lakers remain a major box office ticket for the NBA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Assad, who fled to exile in Russia after he was pushed from power in December 2024, was convicted in absentia along with his brother Maher, who was an important military commander in the former regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

He explained how he’d fled from Storch and had hoped to find a job on a ship.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

Melania Nius was at her husband's hospital bedside on Indonesia's Flores island when a powerful quake shook their town to its core, sending patients fleeing into the chaos outside.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

Edber said the court found her mental state played no role in the alleged crimes and denied her bail, noting she discussed on a jail call fleeing to her native Israel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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

Even though many of their people were fleeing, the Cherokee Nation kept up their resistance.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz