escape
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Our earbuds have already trained us to think of music as a private escape from reality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
The workers seen in the video were able to escape and are safe.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Others, though, see room for SpaceX to escape the downturn.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Russia has moved ships further away from the combat zone to escape the threat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
They released me and I scrambled to my hands and knees to search for a way to escape, but I was surrounded.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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There were some more positive voices, including Variety's Owen Gleiberman, external, who said it "escapes the remake blues - in fact it soars above them".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
People celebrated on roofs, on fire escapes, at watch parties in parks and bars, at Radio City Music Hall, atop buses, on the balconies of Times Square hotels, on airplanes and in subway cars.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
It’s an inclusive environment that rejects the solo artistic ego in favor of human-machine collaboration that almost immediately escapes its creator’s grasp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
They become concentrated in fly ash, some of which escapes through the chimneys of coal-burning plants.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Neill said that, in filming “Possession,” he “only just escaped with his sanity barely intact.”
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Falconio's girlfriend Joanne Lees escaped from Murdoch, hiding in scrubland for several hours before she was able to wave down two men driving a truck.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Her account of the Bund’s fervor and the exile into which its survivors escaped is interesting but overwrought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
While few assets have escaped the current euphoria, the S&P 400 has risen considerably less in the last few years than the S&P 500.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Neither seemed to care at all that they were still in danger, or that they hadn’t quite escaped yet, and Jack was hardly going to remind them.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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Until now, scientists have not fully understood how α-synuclein enters healthy neurons after escaping from dying ones.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
But despite all the new assets and graphics, there is no escaping the fact it is based on a game first released in 2013.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The regulator later required a redesign of the engine nacelle—its protective casing—to prevent debris from escaping in the case of a catastrophic failure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The buzz: Unbeaten Argentina needed three goals in 13 minutes to stay that way, barely escaping its round-of-16 game with Egypt on Enzo Fernández’s goal in stoppage time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Their spacious home served as an underground railroad station assisting enslaved men, women, and children escaping from southern states into Canada.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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