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escape

[ih-skeyp] / ɪˈskeɪp /




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James and Lou, a young married couple, leave Chicago for London to escape the evil haunting them, but they discover that it has followed them abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

The sales pitch has become harder to escape precisely as it has become more intimate.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

They can provide a sense of safety in emergencies, such as an accident, when you may have to cut a seat belt or break a window to escape.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

There’s no safe place to pull over, no signs pointing toward escape, no assurance that their lives have a destination.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

I take a perverse satisfaction in rushing off toward Dara, planning to drop her food and finally find my escape route.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

After that, Anthropic and others began checking their logs and noticed escapes and hacks dating back months.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

But Joshua produced one of the greatest escapes of his career, and now that fight is on.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

That’s how a coach escapes bad publicity for chasing off a player.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Panama is preparing to announce changes to its prison system in July following inmate escapes, while Honduras plans to purchase drones from Ukraine for its anti-drug efforts.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

A beautiful French spy escapes murderous Gestapo agents in Paris; in the North Sea, British navy sailors brave a suicide mission against enemy submarines.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Fourteen people escaped the building, police said, of whom two were seriously injured, two suffered moderate injuries and four suffered minor injuries.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

It said there had been issues with a stallion on the cliffs who had repeatedly escaped through a pedestrian gate.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

HelloFresh—the largest meal kit company globally—has escaped unscathed as it does all of its meal-kit manufacturing in-house.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

And there may have been even more important acts, if indeed the hotel’s cellars were used to hide escaped French prisoners of war.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Among Barney’s crew was Charles Ball, a young man from Maryland who had escaped his enslavement and told navy recruiters he was free.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

"I suffered from body dysmorphia for years because of that, believing that no matter how strong, thin or young I was, there was no escaping the dreaded cottage cheese thighs."

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

County that aid people escaping domestic violence and provide other homelessness services.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Thousands of people, many of them elderly, were escaping the heat in evacuation shelters.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

That distance was too great for the instrument to detect gamma rays coming from the planet, but scientists believed it might still register neutrons escaping from the Martian surface and atmosphere.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

They rolled on the floor and tumbled down from the piles in the corners, hightailing it to where Uncle Cotton lay with his eyes closed, a heavy sigh escaping his lips.

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




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