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Recent Examples of decamp
After graduation, the friends decamped to different cities, but people kept asking to be sent the DVD.
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2025
Bradford City, another League Two club, decamped here when their pitches were covered in snow over winter.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
In 1978, an ambitious and rebellious young woman, Marina Bulgari, decamped from her family business to branch out with her own jewelry brand.
—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
The studio’s longtime box-office rainmaker Christopher Nolan, meanwhile, decamped to Universal to make his next billion-dollar movie, Oppenheimer.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2025
Bradford City, another League Two club, decamped here when their pitches were covered in snow over winter.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
In 1978, an ambitious and rebellious young woman, Marina Bulgari, decamped from her family business to branch out with her own jewelry brand.
—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
The studio’s longtime box-office rainmaker Christopher Nolan, meanwhile, decamped to Universal to make his next billion-dollar movie, Oppenheimer.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decamp
Verb
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Thirteen Excel players, including Ian Happ, Adam Ottavino and Anthony Volpe, absconded to WME Sports with the duo, while several more players left for other agencies.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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The two men absconded with cash and credit cards before fleeing the scene.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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While restaurants, meatpackers and countless other businesses now risk having workers targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, tech employers have largely escaped Trump administration scrutiny for their use of foreign labor.—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
3 June 2025
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But the Hurricanes escaped further trouble when Joey Urban — with runners on the corners — bounced into an inning-ending double play.—
Walter Villa,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2025
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The last two batters might as well have ducked out the way on strike three, nervous that Winter’s 90-something mph fastball was headed straight for their shoulders, only to be greeted with the break of a slider good enough to get out professional hitters.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
26 May 2025
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Mitchell stopped the car and both of them got out, then Mitchell hit Hill in the head and body with a bat, according to deputies.—
Natalie Demaree,
Miami Herald,
26 May 2025
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The pair elope in Las Vegas after the Billboard Music Awards.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
24 May 2025
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Dorfman later revealed that the two secretly eloped in late 2023 The news of their split comes five months after Dorfman seemingly hinted at their breakup in a post shared to Instagram in late December 2024 Tommy Dorfman and Elise Williams are going their separate ways.—
Esther Kang,
People.com,
22 May 2025
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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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However, within a week, the temple was broken into and thieves made off with the hair.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
25 May 2025
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The plot was inspired by several actual snatch-and-grab jobs from the era, including the 1972 Worcester Art Museum heist in which robbers made off with masterpieces from Rembrandt, Picasso and Gauguin.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2025
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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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