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escape

[ih-skayp] / ɪˈskeɪp /




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To play Sebastian, Guitarrica had to immerse himself in the character’s emotional repression, from which music is his only escape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

The company has avoided spending hundreds of billions on an AI infrastructure buildout, a move that has given Apple shares safe-haven status among investors looking to escape the volatility in the tech landscape.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

At HMP Gloucester, it is zombies that visitors must try and escape from as they walk past old prison cells, facing all sorts of scary encounters.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown cleanup system at the back of the eye, revealing a hidden route that allows fluid and waste to escape into the body's lymphatic system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Nothing! I just figured that we had a chance to escape if we left right away, before Miss Clerk had settled back in.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Resistant starch is a type of carbohydrate that escapes much of the usual digestion in the small intestine, allowing it to reach the colon, where microbes can break it down.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

It’s the one element of the play that escapes Dürrenmatt’s strict literary control.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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

Even though a black hole is a star, none of the light it shines ever escapes past the event horizon; that’s why it’s black.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Precision breeding and artificial intelligence may provide additional ways to redesign HMA domains, allowing them to recognize pathogen molecules that previously escaped detection.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Felipe earns some money programming for clients in Miami while Tejeda works at children's parties to scrape some cash, but most young people have not escaped the pangs of Cuba's economic crisis.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 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

Her tongue escaped the side of her mouth as she labored.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Resident Sohail told AFP "everyone began screaming in panic" after his niece managed to find her way home after escaping the building to inform them of the collapse.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

But for many major gigs, there's no escaping a stream of fan videos from the shows if you're online, whether you like it or not.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The agency gets the images within 48 hours, then sends out notices to landfill and oil and gas operators when methane is seen escaping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

It provided a shield, preventing radiation from escaping, and it also cooled the rods.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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