scram
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If a cop tells you to scram, “You can say, ‘It is my understanding I have every right to record this.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2021
Ferraro walked the same tightrope that tripped up Hillary Clinton when she wondered if she should wheel around in that debate and tell the creeping Donald Trump to scram.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2020
Any thoughts on getting them to scram and protecting myself now and at future jobs down the line?
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2020
The future D.C. mayor was 16 years younger than Rutherford, who remembers her father, Joe, ordering him and his friends to scram when they played ball in a nearby field.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2015
She seems to welcome my presence because she lets me stay there instead of telling me to scram, like in the old days.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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The good news is they scrammed, leaving me and my bike alone.
From Forbes ● May 5, 2015
Automatic systems would have "scrammed" the reactors, pushing control rods into the core and shutting them down.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Good Night Ladies thereupon scrammed to San Francisco for a week, clicked, stayed five.
From Time Magazine Archive
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All three of the scrammed reactors had emergency cooling systems.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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The three active reactors at the plant had successfully scrammed.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Another image from the series shows a group of children "scramming" for coins tossed to them after a wedding in one of Dundee's churches.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2010
A giant lobby clock hangs above the scattered people, the crowds scramming either to something or away from it—I can’t tell.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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We are scramming through that crowd like mad, and we are in the clear.
From Hoiman and the Solar Circuit by Gordon Dewey
I was confronted with the alternatives of scramming or calling him a liar.
From The Old Martians by Roger Phillips Graham