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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
Explore an immersive experience featuring large-scale animal and nature scape lanterns representing wild places from around the globe 4-9 p.m. at Woodland Park Zoo.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2022
That trait spent the afternoon surmounting an unusual hell scape of obstacles.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022
Iridaceæ, 513 Stamens 6; flowers usually on a scape from a bulb.
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
How do you, masters, how do you? how have you scaped hanging this long time?
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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
How long his senses bore its chilling chain, He knew not—but, recalled to Life again, A stranger stood beside his shivering form— And what was he? had he too scaped the storm?
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
No, sir, to the parish: Marry, I have seldom scaped scot-free at the Lattice.
From Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson
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
