escapologist

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An escapologist who was left paralysed during rehearsals of America's Got Talent: Extreme has begun legal action against the show's producers.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023

Yet her portrait of this womanizing, "self-destroyed escapologist" is softened by her high regard for his lush language.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2016

There were other calamities, too, from which Bowie, ever the escapologist, managed to flee unscathed, and even with his reputation—or his catalogue of hits—enhanced.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2016

Along the way, he forged a reputation as a master escapologist that merely added to the aura of mystique and near invincibility surrounding a man who came to be know as “Ice Borg”.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2015

Houdini turned to debunking mediums in his middle age as his career as an escapologist went into decline.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2014