escapes
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Resistant starch is a type of carbohydrate that escapes much of the usual digestion in the small intestine, allowing it to reach the colon, where microbes can break it down.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
He’s the one American wanderer who escapes Pamplona alone, returning to that same existence that he once found so commonplace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The roughly 34,500 defectors to reach the South since 1998 are a fraction of North Korea's 26.6 million people, UN figures show, but the plunging number of escapes has consequences.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
It’s the one element of the play that escapes Dürrenmatt’s strict literary control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Nobody, though, escapes the Inquisition, and once a full show trial had begun, the only conceivable verdict was to find Galileo guilty of something and punish him as a warning to others.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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