escapologist
Example Sentences
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An escapologist who was left paralysed during rehearsals of America's Got Talent: Extreme has begun legal action against the show's producers.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
Yet her portrait of this womanizing, "self-destroyed escapologist" is softened by her high regard for his lush language.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2016
There were other calamities, too, from which Bowie, ever the escapologist, managed to flee unscathed, and even with his reputation—or his catalogue of hits—enhanced.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2016
Houdini turned to debunking mediums in his middle age as his career as an escapologist went into decline.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2014
To use a word borrowed from theatre, it's truth that counts; and, unusually for a professional escapologist, he doesn't want to be put in a box.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2013
