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decamp

[dih-kamp] / dɪˈkæmp /


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After most OpenAI employees threatened to decamp to Microsoft, the directors reversed course.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

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

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

From Barron's Jan. 23, 2026

Yet others question whether anything like a Mamdani mayoralty would really provoke millionaires and billionaires to decamp.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2025

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

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

From Salon Mar. 24, 2026

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 London displays wrap up on Tuesday, when the fashion crowd decamps to Milan Fashion Week for more new season runway shows.

From Seattle Times Feb. 20, 2023

This is normally the inflection point when an idiosyncratic filmmaker either smooths out his sensibilities to make a superhero movie or decamps to a streaming service in search of creative control at a bigger budget.

From New York Times Apr. 22, 2022

This comes to be very awkward at times, especially if a whole herd decamps or takes “a moonlight flitting.”

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

In nearby Habana Vieja, the historic city center, nine families who decamped from a collapsed building three years ago are still living in a boxing gym.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

So he decamped to the country that paid him attention.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Two years later, Maurice decamped for the Florida Panthers—who promptly traded for Tkachuk.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 14, 2026

Days before the attack, however, they had decamped to a short-term rental in Campsie - about 30 minutes closer to the beach, media reports said.

From BBC Dec. 15, 2025

But I wondered whether Davis had really quit the internet entirely, or whether he’d just decamped to some farther shore.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

He later relocated to Paris and became a film producer and distributor, before decamping to Mexico in 1938, just before the outbreak of World War II.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Finch had emerged from the lowest level of college basketball imaginable, playing at Division III Franklin & Marshall before decamping to the steel town in Yorkshire to keep his playing career alive.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 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

Immigration and births aren’t keeping up with the Golden Staters decamping for Texas and other states that boast a better cost of living.

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2025

For the rest the horses in the barn were ready harnessed, and Ma could be trusted to get together the household things ready for decamping.

From The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies by Cullum, Ridgwell




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