escape
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As material spirals toward a black hole, not all of it necessarily disappears beyond the event horizon, the boundary past which nothing can escape.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Uri Shulevitz’s tale of his family’s arduous journey out of Poland to escape the Nazis during World War II has every appearance of being solely for children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
We couldn’t escape it if we tried, it’s just in our DNA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Tucked behind private gates, the architectural residence combines modern design with an abundance of outdoor space, offering a secluded escape from the bustle of Los Angeles.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
How odd it is to hear Miss Genovese’s clipped voice here, on this fire escape, instead of in the switchboard room at Central.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
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
And Sydney—after schemes, escapes and sacrifices—is set up for the most famous fictional moment in the Reign of Terror.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
I see fire escapes and big windows that look wrong.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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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
As mayoral election day nears, four people talk about how they escaped homelessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have encouraged "pacing" - or slowing down - development after models created by all three were found to have escaped their testing environments or taken actions without authorization.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
OpenAI has come under scrutiny for a spate of security incidents in which its AI agents escaped containment and in some cases hacked other companies or aggressively probed third-party websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
In Otsuchi, Ryoichi Usuzawa had found Taro and escaped the first wave by climbing onto his roof, carrying the dog.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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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
The Times spoke to two CEOs of other organizations that aid people escaping domestic violence in the L.A. area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
But there is no escaping the reality that public confidence in the body has been damaged.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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
"Slamming the barn door and stomping off like that. I'd like to ask her about the escaping pony, but I don't think she'll want to talk to us right now."
From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene
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