escape
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By pushing people to content they respond to emotionally, many say social media can drive us into "rabbit holes" that are difficult to escape.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Gases like carbon dioxide make it harder for heat to escape from the Earth, rather like the glass windows of a greenhouse.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The company is also heavily promoting the safety and security of its new agents at a moment when researchers have been sounding alarms about the potential for AI to escape the control of humans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Their film is a trapdoor, a hidden escape hatch that only two people willing to pause and look around amid all of the chaos could see.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
The hot coffee scalded my mouth but I gulped it down and made my escape to the garden.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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As the potato heats up, however, that water turns into vapor and escapes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Unlike Guzmán and his sons, who are known for more dramatic displays like prison escapes, Zambada worked more stealthily to avoid prison for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
That’s how a coach escapes bad publicity for chasing off a player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
A strand of his hair escapes his ponytail, and I watch as he tucks it behind his ear.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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Police were on Tuesday hunting for two thieves who escaped with two Renoir paintings from a museum in southern France, after abandoning two others in its garden as they fled, a mayor said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
This baby boomlet has largely escaped notice because the percentage of Florida’s population under 5 hasn’t increased substantially since 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
It recently made headlines after rogue AI agents that escaped a testing environment appeared on its platform, raising questions about AI safety and oversight.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The menu escaped the menu a long time ago.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 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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The crew initially tried to restart the engine on gas before they realised that methane was escaping from the side of the ship.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
“But worrying about the future is the same as the past. Those are the only places where anxiety lives, unless you’re literally escaping a bear that’s trying to eat you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
It entered the headlines in July, when some 700 autonomous agents built by OpenAI breached the platform after escaping an isolated test environment.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The city’s priciest neighborhoods become particularly clogged each summer as drivers escaping the Gulf’s scorching heat arrive with Ferraris, Lamborghinis and McLarens bearing Middle East license plates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Thinking only of escaping with her life, she spun round and ran.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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