lam
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After escaping Manhattan, he wonders, “Where do you go? There’s no place else. It was like going on the lam from yourself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Monkeys on the lam in St. Louis and AI isn’t helping.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026
The suspected leaker is believed to be a Chinese national who has moved back to China and is now on the lam, South Korean officials say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
They went on the lam to Chicago, Florida, and Arizona, and points in between.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2024
They didn’t take it on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
But before a damage suit could be prosecuted, the spiritual leader of 20 million Ismali Moslems lammed out of town.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elia Kazan was casting Inge's new Broadway production, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and when Tuesday Weld suddenly lammed for Hollywood, Sandy became understudy for two roles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week he lammed out for good, dying at 86 on his upstate New York farm.
From Time Magazine Archive
The diversion which enthralls him most is golf, and once golf awarded him its most coveted prize: four months ago he lammed out a hole in one.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like kingpins, one steel tier lammed into another, then they all crashed to the floor with a sound as of the roof falling.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Shinners, scalpers, and tweaks are good too—jolly good!… but of course all this comes after lamming and tunding….
From Snake and Sword A Novel by Percival Christopher Wren
You had to keep lamming and maybe you never got a chance to enjoy it.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
"You went to Joe Pepper's room for the purpose of lamming him?" repeated old Mr. King, darting out of his chair.
From Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney
I don’t blame you, now, for lamming me over the ear like you done.
From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones
Look at the old crook now, still lamming that axe round to beat the cars because he thinks he's being watched!
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
