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go AWOL

verb as in abscond

verb as in desert

Strongest matches

betray
bolt
depart
escape
flee
forsake
give up
quit
vacate

Strong matches

abscond
apostatize
beach
chuck
decamp
duck
fly
go
jilt
leave
light
maroon
relinquish
renounce
resign
split
strand
tergiversate
walk

Weak matches

bail out
check out
cop out
crawl out
go back on
go over the hill
go west
leave high and dry
leave in the lurch
leave stranded
opt out
play truant
pull out
run out on
sneak off
take a hike
take off
throw over
violate oath

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Can you take us inside James's head when he does go AWOL?

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For James to decide to go AWOL, he could have ended up in military prison.

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Others grow curious and go AWOL.

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“Getting out of the war automatically means criminal prosecution,” Tabalov said, adding there have been a flurry of criminal cases since December, with prosecutions of soldiers who desert or go AWOL.

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While it is technically possibly for an IUD to go AWOL—well, according to a piece in Self by Zahra Barnes:

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