go into hiding
idiom
: to go to a secret place where one will not be found
She went into hiding to avoid reporters and television cameras.
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Her daughter Paola has asked why Yessenia didn’t just go into hiding instead of agreeing to deport herself.
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Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 3 Dec. 2025
Machado herself was barred from running and had to go into hiding, but has received a Nobel prize for her cause.
—John Davenport, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
Some public figures go into hiding after being charged with a crime, but not New York Attorney General Letitia James.
—Ben Adler, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
After killing the brother of a border-town crime lord, the two broken strangers go into hiding from the pseudo-philosophical assassin hired to kill them.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 28 July 2025
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Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 3 Dec. 2025
Machado herself was barred from running and had to go into hiding, but has received a Nobel prize for her cause.
—John Davenport, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
Some public figures go into hiding after being charged with a crime, but not New York Attorney General Letitia James.
—Ben Adler, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
After killing the brother of a border-town crime lord, the two broken strangers go into hiding from the pseudo-philosophical assassin hired to kill them.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 28 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for go into hiding
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“Go into hiding.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20into%20hiding. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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