provide escape

So he went to the Barnes & Noble in Burbank and asked the clerk for a YA fantasy book with a Black boy lead but without racial trauma or police brutality — one that could provide escape for readers.

"These buffers absorb immigrants when core populations get too high, but also provide escape routes when elephants face poor environmental conditions or other threats such as poaching," Huang said.

Dual passports no longer provide escape routes as they once did.

Experts say shelters can provide escape at perilous moments; having to turn people away can be a matter of life and death.

Magical realist moments, such as floating above the ground, provide escape from a hardscrabble life of having to grow up too fast.