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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

So what did the last three days of running in Bahrain, before the teams decamp to Albert Park in Melbourne, say about the reshaped sport - and who are the winners and losers within that?

From BBC Feb. 20, 2026

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

From Barron's Jan. 23, 2026

Gates was now in his senior year, and somehow he managed to convince his teachers to let him decamp for Bonneville under the guise of an independent study project.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

From Salon Mar. 24, 2026

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

Ayush goes for a kingside break, but after White’s king decamps for the queenside, it is the Black king who comes under fire.

From Washington Times Mar. 22, 2022

Patinkin almost decamps to play one of the sons in the Dustin Hoffman “Death of a Salesman.”

From New York Times Jul. 28, 2021

A 'cockatoo' is a selector who works his piece of land out in two or three years, and having done nothing to improve it, decamps to select in a new district.

From Town Life in Australia by Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell

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

The Wall Street Journal reported in April that Abel unloaded the stocks managed by Combs, who decamped for JPMorgan Chase.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 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

Dozens of Apple engineers and designers with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics and more have decamped to OpenAI in recent months, according to a review of LinkedIn profiles.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

At the semester break every spring when Oppenheimer decamped for Caltech, the entourage followed him south in a caravan of rickety vehicles.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Amar Subramanya, who helped oversee Google’s Gemini chatbot before decamping to Microsoft earlier this year, will join Apple as vice president of AI, one rung lower than where Giannandrea was in the organization chart.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 2, 2025

He had asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio to lay the groundwork for the summit with the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov; to make sure there was a point in decamping to Budapest.

From BBC Oct. 23, 2025

For generations, Mexican immigrants have landed in this area before decamping to Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2024

Blinken had visited Israel and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday before decamping to Jordan for meetings with senior Arab officials on Saturday.

From Seattle Times Nov. 5, 2023

Their courage was evidently the inverse ratio of their speed--in decamping.

From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Verne, Jules




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