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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Harbaugh needed an escape hatch, and go back to the NFL was seemingly his exit.
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Miami Herald, 23 Dec. 2025
Prosecutors said during closing arguments that Dugan’s actions followed frustration with immigration arrests in courthouses and amounted to an intentional effort to give Flores-Ruiz an escape hatch and buy him time to use it.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2025
Inside this opaque vortex of both nonideological and ideological mayhem, the Red Shambhala scene offers kids one (ridiculous) escape hatch away from the alt-violence pipeline.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
Each of the four has an escape hatch from the bears.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2025
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Miami Herald, 23 Dec. 2025
Prosecutors said during closing arguments that Dugan’s actions followed frustration with immigration arrests in courthouses and amounted to an intentional effort to give Flores-Ruiz an escape hatch and buy him time to use it.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2025
Inside this opaque vortex of both nonideological and ideological mayhem, the Red Shambhala scene offers kids one (ridiculous) escape hatch away from the alt-violence pipeline.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
Each of the four has an escape hatch from the bears.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 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 29 Dec. 2025.
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