escape
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As the magma continues to escape, sections of the unsupported ground subside, opening new fractures and vents while feeding further eruptive columns and pyroclastic density currents.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Young people in China are launching solo AI-built startups to escape a bleak job market and intense corporate work pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Susan Harvey, a grandmother to five, said she was out for a walk to clear her head and escape the news.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
No. 12 USC ultimately managed to escape Rutgers with a 42-35 win.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
She heads back down the stairs, and I wish I could escape into someone else’s fictional world with problems that have nothing to do with me—but I make myself pick up.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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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
Jordan, who escapes relatively unscathed, is at once cowed and traumatized yet committed to vengeance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
In this setup, a laser continuously supplies additional photons to the cavity, while some light escapes through the partially reflecting mirrors.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
These escapes put the Berlin Wall at the heart of the Cold War.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
In July, Anthropic's Claude escaped its test environment to hack three organisations on its own just days after OpenAI said its models had carried out cyber-attacks against several "publicly available services".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
In July, OpenAI revealed that one of its unreleased models had escaped its testing sandbox and hacked the AI company Hugging Face.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
After Natalie had escaped, the water in their house had kept rising, pushing Mama and Tía Beatriz up toward the ceiling.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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Nine months after escaping Venezuela in disguise to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, María Corina Machado is preparing her next move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 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
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
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
All ribbons and lace, perfect as a shop-fresh doll save for a few unruly curls escaping her braids.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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