as in to abscond
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Recent Examples of decamp
Veteran cable news broadcast personalities like CNN’s own Jim Acosta have decamped to new media platforms like Substack.
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Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Tesla has struggled in 2025, with CEO Elon Musk decamping to DC to temporarily head up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
—James Peckham, PC Magazine, 13 June 2025
Michaels appears occasionally in the memoir — the two became friends in the ’70s, when the SNL cast would decamp to aftershow parties at One Fifth, where McNally, newly arrived from England, was working as maître d’.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
O’Donnell, who has traded public jibes with Trump for almost two decades, decamped to Ireland in January with her non-binary child, and is seeking citizenship based on her ancestry.
—Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
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Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Tesla has struggled in 2025, with CEO Elon Musk decamping to DC to temporarily head up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
—James Peckham, PC Magazine, 13 June 2025
Michaels appears occasionally in the memoir — the two became friends in the ’70s, when the SNL cast would decamp to aftershow parties at One Fifth, where McNally, newly arrived from England, was working as maître d’.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
O’Donnell, who has traded public jibes with Trump for almost two decades, decamped to Ireland in January with her non-binary child, and is seeking citizenship based on her ancestry.
—Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decamp
Verb
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Hardin was dressed as a law enforcement officer pushing a loading cart in surveillance video that captured him absconding from the prison.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
28 May 2025
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Ariane listens to Perla’s baby monitor while her friend absconds to find Robin.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
Verb
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As the group began running to escape the bees, Karen Pierce estimated she was stung between 15 and 20 times, and Jeremy Pierce had been stung dozens of times.—
Laura Daniella Sepulveda,
AZCentral.com,
9 July 2025
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For more than two decades, a special team of Mexican police officers has quietly worked along the northern border to track down and deport foreign fugitives who cross into Mexico to escape criminal charges in their home countries.—
Time,
Time,
9 July 2025
Verb
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So, just recently, in – in the Midwest, that work by NOAA and the weather forecasting system and the labs helped give information about how to get out of the way of a tornado two hours in advance, not 15 minutes or 13 minutes, but two hours.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 July 2025
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Fried threw one more pitch, a changeup, to get out of the inning and then showed the Yankees the blister.—
Brendan Kuty,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
Verb
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Despite the incident, the couple moved forward, with the pair announcing their engagement in November 2024 and eloping in March 2025.—
Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
9 July 2025
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They got engaged the following year and then eloped in 2021.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
3 July 2025
Verb
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Zoom in: Privacy and security are big: The house has a private gate and parking so no one has to use the main door, security offices for guests' staff and a bedroom with a secret exit should important visitors need to scram.—
Mimi Montgomery,
Axios,
11 Oct. 2024
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As of now, one man sits on a small dock off each island, telling onlookers to scram.—
Danielle Paquette,
Washington Post,
12 Dec. 2019
Verb
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Taylor Tomlinson will host After Midnight, the show that is replacing The Late Late Show now that James Corden has scarpered off to old Blighty.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
1 Nov. 2023
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Idrissa Gueye has scarpered, but that void was instantly filled by Mainz midfielder Jean-Philippe Gbamin - while Moise Kean, goodness knows how, has signed from Juventus to sharpen things up front.—
SI.com,
SI.com,
5 Aug. 2019
Verb
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The men used a crowbar to break in, the indictment said, but fled before making off with anything.—
Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2025
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Knowing this, knowing that the briny deep awaits and that nobody’s coming to your rescue—along with the loot, the captain’s made off with the ship’s radio—would anyone blame you for being a little put-upon?—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
13 June 2025
Verb
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No studio would finance the feature, about a whorehouse exhibitionist who lams it after being framed for murder — so director Melvin Van Peebles financed it himself with a boost from Bill Cosby, who gave him a $50,000 loan.—
Andrew Lawrence,
Peoplemag,
17 Feb. 2024
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One of those classic films that’s as good as its reputation (and maybe even better), Billy Wilder’s high-spirited comedy stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as jazz musicians who have to lam it after witnessing a mob crime.—
Keith Phipps,
Rolling Stone,
1 May 2023
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“Decamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decamp. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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