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narrow escape





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Buoyed by that narrow escape, Paul then held to love to go 6-5 up, and suddenly the pressure was all on the 24-year-old from Buenos Aires, playing in his first ATP final.

From Barron's Apr. 5, 2026

Hers begins with her family’s narrow escape from an occupied village west of Kyiv in the early days of the war.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 7, 2025

The duo only made a narrow escape, running from an Alpha in a heart-pounding chase sequence that boasts breathtaking experimental camerawork from Boyle.

From Salon Jun. 20, 2025

He described his own narrow escape when the car he was travelling in got bogged down.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2025

“It could have been so much worse,” he said, with a sense of narrow escape.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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