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escape

[ih-skayp] / ɪˈskeɪp /




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Awaiting the landfall, we slept upstairs with a life raft, axes and an emergency weather radio, in case we had to escape through the roof.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Even after dramatic accidents, drivers in many cases escape relatively unscathed.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

White Bay Cay spans around 25 acres, while the adjacent island adds 7 more acres to Perry’s secluded escape.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Any coach who says “I don’t want to know” where a transfer lives to escape accountability might want to start realizing an entire program can go down when they abdicate responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

He decided that he would escape through the back door, run home faster than a speeding bullet, and tell his mother that something was seriously wrong with Gertrustein.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

The roughly 34,500 defectors to reach the South since 1998 are a fraction of North Korea's 26.6 million people, UN figures show, but the plunging number of escapes has consequences.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

She likens the current situation to a farmer having a bull in a field which escapes and causes destruction – and the farmer blames the bull.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Jordan, who escapes relatively unscathed, is at once cowed and traumatized yet committed to vengeance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

In this setup, a laser continuously supplies additional photons to the cavity, while some light escapes through the partially reflecting mirrors.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

She’s silent for a moment, and then a loud cackle escapes from her, which gets me going again.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

The three researchers worked on monitoring OpenAI's models, which escaped their testing environment in July and hacked Hugging Face, a leading platform for sharing AI models and code.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

But Eckert escaped any individual punishment that threatened his job following an FA investigation into his conduct that lasted for more than four months.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

He escaped with just one run scored, on a grounder up the middle from Mauricio Dubón.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

What remained uncertain was how quickly those heavier elements escaped the first galaxies and spread into the wider universe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

As Jack slid down the wall to the floor a little laugh escaped the wolf’s lips.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has sealed borders with fences, walls and land mines to prevent citizens from escaping to South Korea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The prosecution’s argument is simpler and meaner, almost reminiscent of Steinbeck: Clancy’s actions were premeditated, her way of escaping a life she didn’t want anymore.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

"There's no escaping it - everything feels more expensive and it is more expensive."

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

As planetary systems mature and the flow of material onto the star declines, the jets weaken and the escaping gas becomes increasingly atomic.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

I can bring up his face in my mind, but only because my mom had a picture of him in her shoebox while we were escaping Iran.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri




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