decamp
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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
I enjoyed my life in the City of Brotherly Love, but I had read that Ecuador was affordable and thought that I could decamp there as a temporary base for my self-imposed sabbatical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 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
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
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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
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
Reaper decamps to her nearest companion, saying that was a madman, while he shouted in great wrath, "They were naething else than a set o' ignorant pock-puddings."
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
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
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
Anthropic, founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei and others who decamped from OpenAI, raised $65 billion from investors including Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Sequoia Capital and others, about half OpenAI’s tally that closed earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
A male physician who for a time had rented an office in the castle and who had befriended Holmes—they were seen together often—also had decamped, with no word to anyone.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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
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
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
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
He could picture her face, when she heard that he planned throwing up his fine position and decamping on nothing a year.
From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson
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