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scape

[skayp] / skeɪp /




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“As Outfest was imploding, members of the Outfest Board threw Plaintiff under the bus and sought to make him a scape goat for their own malfeasance.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024

Thinly slice the scapes into discs by holding the scape perpendicular to your knife.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023

That trait spent the afternoon surmounting an unusual hell scape of obstacles.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022

Explore an immersive experience featuring large-scale animal and nature scape lanterns representing wild places from around the globe 4-8:30 p.m. at Woodland Park Zoo.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2021

Anther lid-like, terminal, of 2 approximate cells; pollen-masses powdery-granular, 2 in each cell.—Beautiful low herbs, consisting of a sheathed scape from a globular solid bulb, terminated usually by a single large rose-purple flower.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

In the driver’s seat, I turned on the windshield wipers, and three arms scaped dust from the outside glass.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

Why, is any of them scaped and gone?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt

But they were met in a morning of May With the communalty of little England; But there scaped never a man away, Through the might of Christës hand.

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick

His page, Ascanio, is at the grate, To know, from him, how you had scaped this danger; And brings with him those habits— Soph.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott

What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover

As her body was lowered into the ground, men surrounded the grave, scaping the sand and dirt over it with their hands and placing a rough headstone.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2022

If the pallets embraced 4 teeth, the angle would be 84°; or in case of a 16 tooth wheel scaping over three teeth, the angle would be 360 × 2.5⁄16 = 56¼°.

From An Analysis of the Lever Escapement by H. R. Playtner


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