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escape

[ih-skeyp] / ɪˈskeɪp /




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Six Flags will remove a 70-year-old coaster called the Magic Flyer, and the 40-year-old swing ride Tweety’s Escape, named after the iconic Looney Tunes character.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

According to data from the media company Room Escape Artist and the escape room app Morty, the industry stabilized at the current facility count in 2022, after shrinking more than 10% during the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Ford Escape sales were down nearly 66%, while Mustang Mach-E sales fell 71% to 1,040.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

It also served as the backdrop of the 1996 action thriller The Rock starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage and the 1979 drama Escape from Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

Tom Yew started saying he'd seen The Great Escape and everyone agreed everything else'd been crap compared to The Great Escape, specially the bit where Steve McQueen gets caught by Nazis on the barbed wire.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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