escape

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When a massive star runs out of fuel, it collapses in a powerful supernova and leaves behind an object with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

This is the stage set for the release of Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel “Yesteryear,” a satirical thriller in which Christian tradwife influencer Natalie awakes in an 1855 homestead with no explanation and no escape.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Where Fausset’s story was clumsy enough to draw immediate institutional embarrassment, Bernstein’s is polished enough to escape the same reckoning.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Fans of these family circuses tell Ms. Latifi that they tune in to escape from their own lives, to feel like they are a part of someone else’s family.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

She could not escape public interest in her life or the pain of missing Elisha.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock