escape
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A California federal judge on Thursday signaled that she is likely to order immigration agents to stop arresting people without warrants unless they determine they are likely to escape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
He kept trying to escape, digging beneath bars, testing and pulling at them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
An escape clause hidden in Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package would mark half of his performance targets complete if the company is acquired by Musk’s SpaceX.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
He adds that most people stayed calm - and that his picnic food had a "lucky escape".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
They won’t escape unless there’s a bad storm with really big waves.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
Today most health AI escapes federal review by calling itself a wellness product.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
As the potato heats up, however, that water turns into vapor and escapes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
But Joshua produced one of the greatest escapes of his career, and now that fight is on.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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
Even though a black hole is a star, none of the light it shines ever escapes past the event horizon; that’s why it’s black.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
The other occupant survived and escaped the car, suffering only minor injuries, officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The family escaped to London in 1933 after Hitler’s rise to power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Around it, apart from some cracks, the rest of the buildings seem to have escaped the fate of the Torres.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Liliana Pérez Ocampo and her family escaped moments before their home was rocked by a 7.4 magnitude quake on Monday.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Her mouth opened and a beam of light escaped like a white ribbon.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
The most popular involves a hippo escaping from a traveling circus and finding its way to a nearby creek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The memoir is an account of escaping religious extremism and redefining herself apart from the mountains that raised her and the elite society to which she fled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
One major obstacle was that a single spacecraft could not observe the undisturbed solar wind upstream of Mars while also measuring atmospheric ions escaping closer to the planet.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
People in towns and villages around Madrid have been relaying their experiences of escaping the fires, some with just the clothes they were wearing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
I fall to one knee, a groan escaping my lips.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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