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get away with
verb as in beat the rap
verb as in escape
verb as in lam
Strong matches
Weak matches
- bail out
- break out
- burst out
- cut and run
- cut loose
- duck out
- fly the coop
- get away
- get off
- give someone the slip
- go scot-free
- make a getaway
- make getaway
- make off
- make oneself scarce
- play hooky
- run away
- run off
- run out on
- slip away
- steal away
- take a powder
- take flight
- take it on the lam
- take on the lam
- work out of
- wriggle out
Example Sentences
"We know it would be ideal to train on all the tasks, but we wondered if we could get away with training on a subset of those tasks, apply the result to all the tasks, and still see a performance increase," Wu says.
In May 2020, Trump took to Twitter to ask, “When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida? Did he get away with murder? Some people think so,” Trump wrote.
“Some women have allowed them to get away with bad behavior, and I don’t believe I’m supposed to put up with that,” she said.
Davis became the first Black woman to win an Emmy for lead actress in a drama series in 2015 for her work in “How to Get Away with Murder.”
The ability to commit crimes — even sex crimes — and get away with it is part of the allure of Trumpism.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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