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Rather than try to flee, the larger speedboat began circling the inflatable, taunting the four Civil Guard officers aboard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Families are being forced to flee for the second or third time in this conflict, with almost nothing left," Amy Pope, the IOM's director general, warned last week.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

The conflict in the Arabian Peninsula's poorest country has forced 82,000 people to flee their homes since the start of September, according to the United Nations.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Text messages show Mr. Vorcaro asked the justice for advice as to whether he should flee the country, for help in staving off authorities and for a private in-person meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

They didn’t move nearer, but neither did they flee.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

The novel tells the story of a teacher who flees gang violence in Haiti and his adventures before he finally makes it to Canada, where he re-discovers "the right to breathe without fear".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

It ends 80 years later when his grandson Emanuel, the head of the family business, flees the new Bolshevik regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

The 2007 opening of FX’s groundbreaking legal drama “Damages,” in which Byrne’s young lawyer, Ellen Parsons, flees an uptown New York apartment building in which something terrible has clearly happened, sparked all manner of conversation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

It’s a lie, but maybe it isn’t, so she flees down the stairs and then realizes she forgot her purse.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

In response, many crypto asset firms fled the U.S. for foreign shores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Tens of thousands of people are estimated to have fled their homes there.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Vo, who fled Vietnam as a child, served as the mayor of Cerritos while a member of the city council from 2020 to 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

When the family stepped inside for the first time since they fled, they found their home had been ransacked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Thousands took the chance to win freedom; as many as 3,400 enslaved people from Maryland and Virginia fled to British ships.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Since fleeing into exile in India in 1959, he has been the center of a global Tibetan resistance movement to Chinese policies that he warns seek to “overwhelm” Tibet’s distinct identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

He also said watching his parents rebuild after fleeing communist Vietnam taught him the value of stretching a dollar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

A separate source in Alamata told the BBC there was a worsening humanitarian crisis in the area, as the town swelled with people fleeing fighting.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The pontiff said Europe was "entering a new stage" with the arrival of men and women fleeing war and persecution, urging countries to welcome them.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Life grew even harder when the fleeing hordes arrived.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo