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evacuate

[ih-vak-yoo-eyt] / ɪˈvæk juˌeɪt /


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Still, she couldn’t help but wonder, given those ordered to evacuate included two of her friends.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

When the North Tower was struck and occupants of the South Tower were told to remain in place, Rescorla ordered his people to evacuate.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

As has been well documented by the International Association of Firefighters, on the day of the attack, scores of firefighters died because they did not hear the order to evacuate the towers.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

Former Malibu Mayor Andy Stern’s house was one of those ordered to evacuate because emergency vehicles can’t access it.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

His image is accompanied by shots of military personnel helping families evacuate onto massive trucks, handing out water to long lines of people.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

But in France, Marielle Mourgeon was among 4,000 people forced to cut holidays short in the seaside village of Lacanau, near Bordeaux, after authorities ordered camping sites evacuates as a precaution.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

They handed her over to the “White Angels,” a police group that evacuates citizens living on the front line, who then took her to a shelter for evacuees and contacted her relatives.

From Seattle Times Apr. 30, 2024

Extreme weather in March left at least 13 people dead and tens of thousands had to evacuates in Queensland and New South Wales, with town centres submerged, homes washed away and power cut.

From Reuters Sep. 17, 2022

Project Dynamo, a US-based non-profit that evacuates American civilians from risky situations abroad, has warned Mr Murekezi could face the death penalty in Donetsk.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2022

He observes regarding the water that 'It occasions the retention of nothing that should be evacuated and by relaxation evacuates nothing that should be retained.

From Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain by James Rutherford

All evacuated residents were allowed to return to their homes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

I watched the towers fall while we conducted a search to make sure all employees evacuated.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Athletes were also briefly evacuated from the containers as record rainfall lashed Nagoya last week and caused widespread flooding.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

More than 50,000 residents of Garden Grove city were evacuated and fire crews began hosing down the tank in a bid to cool it.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Tío Pepe just returned from the embassy next door with some exciting news—Mundín is going to be evacuated soon!

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

After evacuating as many citizens as he could, the KMT’s 10th-army commander, Gen. Fang Xianjue, ordered the construction of massive defense works, blew a major bridge over the Xiang and prepared to make his stand.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Long queues of people could be seen evacuating towns on foot, by motorbike and car, some piled into the back of pickup trucks.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

As they were driving away when evacuating, they could see on their app that there were firemen with hoses walking around.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Skytraders carried out a similar mission in March 2020, when the US requested help evacuating a member of the US Antarctic Program also based in McMurdo, although temperatures were slightly warmer at -30°C.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

But evacuating meant abandoning their plans to search through the rubble for loved ones who might still be alive.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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