escape hatch
noun
1
: a hatch providing an emergency exit from an enclosed space
2
: a means of evading a difficulty, dilemma, or responsibility
Examples of escape hatch in a Sentence
the escape hatch of a submarine
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That mind-set offers an escape hatch from confronting urgent problems like climate change, which the Biennale is ostensibly focused on.
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Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
He's Delivered the Opposite | Opinion Crucially, Netanyahu also left himself an escape hatch for his domestic audience.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
If there is no guide in the room, fear will look for an escape hatch.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
And kids can grow from interacting with their peers and teachers—no digital escape hatch in sight.
—Gail Cornwall, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025
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Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
He's Delivered the Opposite | Opinion Crucially, Netanyahu also left himself an escape hatch for his domestic audience.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
If there is no guide in the room, fear will look for an escape hatch.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
And kids can grow from interacting with their peers and teachers—no digital escape hatch in sight.
—Gail Cornwall, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for escape hatch
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“Escape hatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/escape%20hatch. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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