escape
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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
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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
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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
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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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