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Defector Gyuri Kang's 2023 escape by boat with her mother and aunt -- across the maritime border with the South, an extremely rare feat -- was a "miracle", she told a UN hearing.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

And it will be at least a decadelong effort to escape China’s chokehold, experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

So far, a strong tech-driven rally has helped the S&P 500 escape the pull of rising interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

She and her family left Cambodia in 1979 to escape the genocide committed by the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and settled in Chicago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Oddly, for someone trying to escape ghosts, the new house backed up to one of the oldest cemeteries in Rochester.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

He became an international superstar in 1935 in “Captain Blood,” as a wrongly accused doctor who escapes slavery and takes up piracy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

As the potato heats up, however, that water turns into vapor and escapes.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

I wrote to Albus, describing, perhaps insensitively, the wonders of my journey, from narrow escapes from chimaeras in Greece to the experiments of the Egyptian alchemists.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

But the household was emotionally chilly, the distant, close-mouthed parents preferring silence to discussions about what and how they had escaped.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

We’re just living through a time when they’ve escaped containment.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

That remoteness may help explain how an entire species of gentoo penguin escaped recognition for so long.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

If this book shows that the royals haven't escaped the legacy of Diana's death, then it also shows that neither has he.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Among Barney’s crew was Charles Ball, a young man from Maryland who had escaped his enslavement and told navy recruiters he was free.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

“There was no escaping my heritage,” he thought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

"Washington worries about capability escaping control. Beijing worries about capability threatening domestic stability," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Normally, the gut barrier allows nutrients to pass into the body while helping prevent harmful bacteria from escaping the intestines.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Sometimes it soars up to the clouds as if escaping Nickerson Gardens for a breath of air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Now colored folks like Ophie and her mother, historically in bondage, exercised the freedom they did have to make their way to the city, escaping the chokehold of Jim Crow.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland