as in to escape
to get free from a dangerous or confining situation
at last she decided to break out of her suffocating marriage
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The foreign aid agency, the world's largest of its kind, has for decades provided assistance to countries whose residents are recovering from disaster or who are trying to escape poverty.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
3 Feb. 2025 -
Dozens of New Snowbird Options to Florida Allegiant Air, Breeze Airways, and Southwest are adding dozens of new routes to the Sunshine State just in time for northerners to escape the next six weeks of winter.—
Edward Russell,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Feb. 2025
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With the brutality and U.S. support continuing, refugees would continue to flee by sea, landing in South Florida.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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While Shapiro survived the attack, Alcala fled the scene but was later caught and arrested, pleading guilty to child molestation.—
Mollie Markowitz,
Fox News,
26 Jan. 2025
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Last year, just hours after wrapping up her final Eras tour show in Tokyo, Swift flew to Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas to support Kelce and the Chiefs at Super Bowl LVIII.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
1 Feb. 2025
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Casey Crafton, a father and volunteer youth sports coach, was among those killed in Wednesday night’s plane crash while flying back from Wichita to Washington D.C. on American Airlines flight 5342.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
1 Feb. 2025
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The roar of violent explosions, the sky turning red, screams, the buildings shaking, the people running away from the various premises.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau and George Ramsay,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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And Howard’s near-perfect night let the Buckeyes run away from Notre Dame in the title game.—
Stewart Mandel,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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After slashing the man on the face, the woman ran off, cops said.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
24 Jan. 2025
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The systems are meant to replace heating and cooling systems that run off fossil fuels like natural gas, heating oil or propane.—
Katie Fehrenbacher,
Axios,
22 Jan. 2025
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Silk Road founder gets out of prison Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the website Silk Road, appears in an undated photograph made from his computer and presented as an exhibit during his 2015 criminal trial in New York federal court.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2025
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The battle against the Knights got out of hand quickly as TCU started the game in the worst fashion.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Jan. 2025
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