escape
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Epstein helped her escape her boyfriend and put her on a flight home to Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
She found out just how critical that skill was when desperately trying to escape a violent sea otter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
"No one could escape, it was so sudden," said Nimsang Gurung, a sales representative with the company.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
He estimates about 50 to 60 workers were able to escape the tunnel alongside him.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
He had too many other things on his mind to try to escape her, so she walked all the way to school with him.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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
After that, Anthropic and others began checking their logs and noticed escapes and hacks dating back months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Tiny dog escapes marsh, survives aerial assault by an organized gang of seagulls, and is rescued by the Menlo Park Fire Department,” East Palo Alto police wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
"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
At least seven famous mediums took on the Courier’s challenge, among them the Davenport brothers, teenage mediums whose impossible escapes from spirit cabinets were the latest in spiritual manifestations.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
The company made news in July when it shared that it had been hacked by an autonomous swarm of AI agents, which it later discovered had escaped from an internal cybersecurity test at OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
People who reach their 90s without dementia might appear to have escaped much of the danger of cognitive decline.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
“You escaped helping me shovel the driveway. It snowed last night. Again.”
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
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
A third possibility is that thick geological structures in the south trapped heat and prevented it from escaping efficiently.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
The nail-biting finale saw the two pairs jumping on an extraction plane from a beach in north Wales, narrowly escaping the hunters.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The song is about escaping a New York winter: “Gonna sail away / Sun lights another day / Freedom on my mind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
He makes a mock terrified face and takes a few running steps, as if he is escaping something.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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