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decamp

[dih-kamp] / dɪˈkæmp /


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Then, of course, there is the added perk of the private beach, a rare draw in an area where Manhattanites regularly decamp during the warmer summer months.

From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026

"They'd just decamp to Manchester and you wouldn't see them again until Tuesday or Wednesday the next week, looking like they'd had quite a good time."

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

That’s doubtful given that it has already spurred many billionaires to decamp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Barron’s Karishma Vanjani writes that overseas investors’ desire to decamp from Treasuries is already a concern.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

The principal spoke with such gravity that Christine and her classmates worried they might have to pack up their books and decamp for the other side of town at that very moment.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Trump has referred to the 504-acre property that he purchased in 2002 as his Summer White House, and he frequently decamps there for the weekends when it is too hot in Palm Beach, Fla.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Exhibit A: the band decamps to New Orleans to record their next record.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026

Dudamel is 42 years old, and will have been at the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 17 years by the time he decamps for New York, a long tenure.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2023

At least until he decamps to New York in 2026, Dudamel’s performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic remain quintessential summer Hollywood Bowl enticements.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023

The lord of the harem, in the meantime, hastens to the scene of the disturbance, whereupon the other bull decamps.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson

Thousands of residents have decamped to temporary shelters.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Six years after Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, quit royal duties and decamped to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Back at his building, Sillie says, the Venezuelan rescue contingent soon decamped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Last year she decamped to a famous cram center in her home state of Rajasthan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

Back at the Cave, they had stuff to do in the days before they decamped, but not as much as one might think.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Paramount reupping its threat to leave, or even worse, decamping for someplace such as Nashville, is not a great look.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

If the music world is decamping from London again this week, then it needs to "give back to the community", she adds, and not just pay it "lip service".

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

Instead of decamping to Thibodaux, La., for football’s most exclusive family reunion, Mendoza—a transfer from the University of California—spent his summer in Bloomington, obsessively learning the playbook of his new coach, Curt Cignetti.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025

Phil’s beloved music and artistic director isn’t decamping for the New York Philharmonic for another two years, and the Bowl intends to take full advantage of his commanding presence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

She was then, with a lively air, decamping; but Ellis gently, yet positively, declined performing at any concert open to the public at large.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney




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