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Abdullah, a longtime security guard, was praised for his heroic actions confronting the shooters and giving others time to flee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

At the very same moment from ground level, footage filmed from inside a bus shows people crying out in distress and trying to flee as they see the water rushing down the river.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

With them inching closer to the city, Dezhyna and her parents are again thinking about whether they should flee to refuge, far from her beloved Izyum.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Authorities described traffic jams and chaotic scenes as evacuees tried to flee in their cars and firefighters headed toward the blaze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Surprise, surprise: Tony doesn’t get the fellowship, and instead, flees his childhood home early in the morning to catch a bus and a ferry to Provincetown.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

Fearing the worst, Kendal flees with Rosie to London to accept refuge from Rico, Kendal’s old boss at Bon Temps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Metals traders lose at least $144 million as ‘Hat’ flees China.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026

The train then pulls into a station, and the man disembarks and flees down the platform.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025

The Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it’!” he read aloud.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

"For the moment, we have no reliable information regarding the perpetrators. We do not know whether it is a single person or several, nor whether they fled in a vehicle or on foot," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Sanchez was arrested shortly afterward, but Easter fled the scene and wasn’t found until Wednesday, when he surrendered and was taken into custody, the CHP statement said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

He fled the Soviet Union for good in 1922.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Not long ago, Malaysia's then-prime minister urged his country to protect Rohingya Muslims - a stateless minority that has fled violence and discrimination in Myanmar for decades.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

At the grocery store, he fled the spaghetti aisle for the Popsicle freezer.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

Any sense top people are fleeing will concern investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Rescuers combed through debris for survivors Saturday after a powerful earthquake struck off Flores island in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 20 people and sending thousands fleeing.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Edber said the court found her mental state played no role in the alleged crimes and denied her bail, noting she discussed on a jail call fleeing to her native Israel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The turning point was the 2015 crisis when more than one million people, most fleeing Syria’s civil war, poured into Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Magdalys scanned the fleeing crowd for her friends.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older