escape
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Arrested in Mexico in 2024, Zhang later made a dramatic escape before he was recaptured and extradited to the US in 2025.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Russia has moved ships further away from the combat zone to escape the threat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Hawking proposed that the size of a black hole's event horizon, the boundary beyond which even light cannot escape, is proportional to its entropy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
The Pegulas picked up the warm-weather escape in the popular vacation destination in 2005 for $4,075,000.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“Thank you,” he says in this sweet little voice that almost makes me forget he tried to escape again.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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"He has this happy place where he goes into... This is where he escapes to mentally in times of stress, pressure, anxiety or chaos," Swift told Apple Music's Zane Lowe.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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
Later Lisa, who often escapes but then allows herself to be brought back, snaps, “Who in their right mind would wanna live out there?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The question I'd been afraid to think about escapes before I can stop it.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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One fragment would fall into the black hole while the other escaped carrying away more energy than the original particle.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
While they escaped drowning, their dog Jack may not have been as lucky.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
The region's Guigang Zoo asked the public for help on Wednesday to find at least 100 animals that had escaped after their enclosures were damaged, including alpacas, miniature pigs, and zebras.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Dennis, who barely escaped after stumbling into that realm through a hidden portal, hoped never to return.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
As the reactors melted down at Fukushima Daiichi, workers in and around the plant took regular readings to determine how much radioactivity had escaped.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Since escaping another monumental setback 13 days ago, Sinner's performances have expelled any doubts over how he might respond.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Until now, scientists have not fully understood how α-synuclein enters healthy neurons after escaping from dying ones.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
By depicting Oklahoma rez life through the eyes of the restless teenagers raised on movies that romanticize escaping home to find themselves, Harjo’s stories bubbled over with joy and ridiculousness.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
I’ll be escaping triple-digit temperatures on a beach chair in California.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The Underground Railroad, a system of safe houses used to assist enslaved people escaping to the North, is organized.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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