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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
The fragrant flower scape — which resembles a big, flattened pink pine cone — lasts for as long as six months.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Thinly slice the scapes into discs by holding the scape perpendicular to your knife.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023
Two performers led the charge, wheeling a painted banner bearing the name Jovens do Prenda set against a desert scape.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
Leaf linear; scape about 1° high, 2–6-flowered; flowers 1´ broad, pink-purple; lip as if hinged at the insertion, beautifully bearded toward the dilated summit with white, yellow, and purple club-shaped hairs.—Bogs,
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
And yet for all these Iolly pastimes inuented by this Widdow, to deceyue the poore Scholler, she scaped not free from his Logike rules, not saife from his Philosophy.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
Who is he to whom Love e'er stinted spite * And who scaped his springes and easy sleight; Who free from Love lived in life's delight?
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
—Nay, sir, you must tarry, Though he be scaped; and answer by the ears, sir.
From The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
Ah, sir, I ween'd thou hadst been drowned and gone: But I have spied, that there scaped one.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
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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