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escape

[ih-skeyp] / ɪˈskeɪp /




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“We want it to be an escape, just like Disneyland.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Nearly every choice 18-year-old Ariana Thomas made while growing up on Oahu was geared to escape.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The sales pitch has become harder to escape precisely as it has become more intimate.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

They can provide a sense of safety in emergencies, such as an accident, when you may have to cut a seat belt or break a window to escape.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

He told them how Mutti had helped him to escape, told them the whole story.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

But in another alteration, Damon’s Odysseus fires an arrow into the already blinded Cyclops’ eye as he escapes, giving the monster’s father, Poseidon, a new reason to make his journey home miserable.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

"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

While she never escapes the gravitational pull of her own gendered perspective, Ms. Saxbe nonetheless posits fresh approaches on how men parent and where they might improve.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Along a three-and-a-half-mile stretch of Fifth Avenue, the flag-bedecked buildings with flat roofs, balconies, and fire escapes were stuffed with sweating spectators.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

David Price is one of those whose home escaped the flames in Stourbridge and he is still trying to understand why it was spared.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Watch to learn how an AI agent escaped “sandboxed” environments and hacked a separate company—leading to calls for regulation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Marie Leese escaped the fire with just her dog and her phone, but her beloved garden on Maureen Avenue was destroyed, including a summer house built by her husband before he died.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Their grandmother, Rae, escaped from a Jewish ghetto in what was then the Polish city of Novogrudok by clawing her way through a tunnel.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

The same terrible sound escaped his throat like that day at the Arcanum Cardinal.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Wars come and go, Napoleon rises and falls and these two men remain prisoners of a duty neither seems capable of escaping.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Some of the energy carried by that escaping light can still be used to perform useful work on another quantum system.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

"I suffered from body dysmorphia for years because of that, believing that no matter how strong, thin or young I was, there was no escaping the dreaded cottage cheese thighs."

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

The memoir is an account of escaping religious extremism and redefining herself apart from the mountains that raised her and the elite society to which she fled.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

I’d stand there with my mouth closed tight, my lips zipped, glued, and stapled together to keep the angry words that were banging to get out and have a go at Mama from escaping.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan




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