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escape

[ih-skeyp] / ɪˈskeɪp /




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The researchers found clear evidence that these waves generate the large plasma clouds associated with atmospheric escape.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

Damon’s Odysseus captures all the heroic arrogance, bravery and selfish stupidity of an action-flick brawler who would shoot a giant cyclops in the eye as he’s making his escape, just because.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

People flocked to air-conditioned shopping malls or cafes to escape the blistering temperatures, an AFP reporter saw.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

The models were state-of-the art autonomous hacking machines, and neither company had noticed their escape until last week, when OpenAI disclosed a July hack of the AI company Hugging Face.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

When she had all the coconuts on the rocks, Nim loaded ten into each bag and tied knots across the top so they couldn’t escape.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

"He has this happy place where he goes into... This is where he escapes to mentally in times of stress, pressure, anxiety or chaos," Swift told Apple Music's Zane Lowe.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Panama is preparing to announce changes to its prison system in July following inmate escapes, while Honduras plans to purchase drones from Ukraine for its anti-drug efforts.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

The same idea explains how cars move, how people row boats, and why a balloon shoots forward when air escapes from its opening.

From Science Daily Jun. 16, 2026

Having said that, for me the movie is at its best as a chase thriller — a sequence in which O’Connor escapes a remote farmhouse is particularly well-executed.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

As the final bandages are being placed, a moan escapes his lips.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

AI hacking models from OpenAI and Anthropic escaped corporate test-beds starting in April and broke into unsuspecting corporations.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

Just last week, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced that bots it was developing had escaped what was supposed to be a controlled offline environment to hack a competitor.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

These measurements helped reveal how water escaped from the potatoes and how oil entered the spaces it left behind.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

The most recent occurrence, in late 2015 and early 2016, resulted in an estimated $3.9 trillion in economic losses worldwide, though the U.S. escaped relatively unscathed.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

At Beatrice’s throat, hung from a length of dental floss, was a single pearl—one from Camilla’s necklace that had escaped being restrung.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

A child escaping a math worksheet doesn’t care whether he leaves on a suspension slip or in a restorative circle; either way, the worksheet is gone.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

For the student escaping his work, the assignment should wait for him; acting out no longer gets him out of it.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Thousands of people, many of them elderly, were escaping the heat in evacuation shelters.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

French authorities have ordered the evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula on the south-west coast, with hundreds of people escaping the area by boat.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Pong had never thought about escaping Namwon before, but now the opportunity lurched up like a mudskipper and slapped him across the face with its tail.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat




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