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as in fled
to get free from a dangerous or confining situation
everyone managed to escape from the burning building in time
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as in evaded
to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery
a judge who is very determined not to let criminals escape punishment
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Recent Examples of escaped
Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
Advertisement Two of the vehicles escaped, the attorney general said, while the third stopped and the driver fled the scene.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Luckily, the woman living in the house escaped by evacuating through a window.
—Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2024
Stephanie and John Zara escaped from their home near Asheville but had to leave their phones, identification and other belongings behind.
—NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
Her grandfather was a refugee from Liberia; her grandmother escaped the Holocaust.
—Filippo Grandi, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
Smoke bombs, toilet paper, and two people escaped the stands and made their way onto the field.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
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In May, the filmmaker escaped to Europe after receiving sentence of jail and flogging from the Iranian authorities.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
Advertisement Two of the vehicles escaped, the attorney general said, while the third stopped and the driver fled the scene.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Luckily, the woman living in the house escaped by evacuating through a window.
—Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2024
Stephanie and John Zara escaped from their home near Asheville but had to leave their phones, identification and other belongings behind.
—NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
Her grandfather was a refugee from Liberia; her grandmother escaped the Holocaust.
—Filippo Grandi, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
Smoke bombs, toilet paper, and two people escaped the stands and made their way onto the field.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for escaped
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Destroying a pier is likely beyond the capability of an unconfined sea drone explosion.Ben Hodges, Led Klosky, Robert Person, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2023
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But the physics of an unconfined air blast that disperses its energy in all directions meant that only a small percentage of the blast’s force was focused directly on the bridge’s underside.Ben Hodges, Led Klosky, Robert Person, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2023
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California parents turned their children in after the Los Angeles Police Department asked for the public’s help finding juveniles who partook in multiple flash mob robberies at 7-Eleven stores and fled on bicycles.Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
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Eleven million people have fled their homes, pursued by men with guns and followed by famine.Angelina Jolie, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
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Except Montgomery, the Lions’ tough running back, bounced off his first would-be tackler and evaded several more in easily the game’s most improbable play.Andrew Greif, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
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The drone had evaded Israeli air defenses by approaching Israel from its Mediterranean coast.Paul Iddon, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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Operating in loose cooperation with Lebanese insurgents, these militias wreaked havoc on Israeli forces and their collaborators.Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2024
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Interviews and discussions ran longer and looser, and since the set itself was so quiet, these talky segments emphasized the unsettling absence of background noise.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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When a city’s leadership makes the decision, divisive and expensive referenda can be avoided, Newbrun wrote.Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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Hollywood mostly avoided the post-election weekend out of concern that people wouldn’t be paying attention to anything other than the presidential race.Variety, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
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In India today, there are real fears over changes to the country’s secular character, the collapse of public institutions, the elimination of checks and balances, and the emergence of unbound state authority.Madhav Khosla, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2020
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As Jones’s novel shows, the unbound possibility of slavery beyond the plantation and the narrative of emancipation in the U.S. can be neither settled nor singularly confined to Juneteenth.Jordan Taliha McDonald, Vulture, 19 June 2024
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An unrestrained performance from Kevin Spacey doesn’t help matters, though the film’s more misfire than disaster.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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Beyond Curiosity Even Leonardo’s biggest fans will acknowledge that unrestrained curiosity isn’t always appealing.Laila Marouf, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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In the face of tragedy, the armor protecting her interior fragility comes undone, and the same intense force of will that may or may not have exploded a copper pot or ignited fire to a poster directs itself inward.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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Her hair was brushed over to one side, cascading toward one shoulder in undone waves with tons of volume.Kara Nesvig, Allure, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Escaped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/escaped. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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