as in to abscond
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Recent Examples of decamp
In the earliest stages of A Night at the Opera, Queen decamped to Ridge Farm, an hour outside of London, to get some writing done.
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Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
After the curtain fell to wild applause, the audience decamped a few blocks away to the Bryant Park Grill, where congratulations and bravos flowed like Champagne.
—Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2025
But the screenwriter never left, having decamped from Hollywood for the native Philadelphia suburbs which have essentially become his muse.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
The Domain functions as an expansive outdoor classroom for environmental science courses as professors regularly decamp to hiking trails for their lectures and students learn the different shapes of the leaves while walking beneath them.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
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Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
After the curtain fell to wild applause, the audience decamped a few blocks away to the Bryant Park Grill, where congratulations and bravos flowed like Champagne.
—Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2025
But the screenwriter never left, having decamped from Hollywood for the native Philadelphia suburbs which have essentially become his muse.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
The Domain functions as an expansive outdoor classroom for environmental science courses as professors regularly decamp to hiking trails for their lectures and students learn the different shapes of the leaves while walking beneath them.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decamp
Verb
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Ignatova herself faces charges of wire and securities fraud and money laundering but has absconded.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Smith was wanted for absconding on his parole, and investigators had identified him as a person of interest in the homicides of Tonya Stallings, 54, and Ashley Stallings, 33, the release states.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Oct. 2025
Verb
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When officers began to chase him, Rustrian turned off his car’s lights to try to escape police.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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Many winter Texans flock to the city to escape colder temperatures up north, and Mexican citizens also frequent the city for shopping and business.—
Amanda Ogle,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Spacetime may be more strongly curved inside of a black hole’s event horizon, but anything that happens in there can’t get out; nothing can escape a black hole’s interior, even at the speed of light.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025
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In November 2024, CBS countersued, arguing that Sony had created a false pretext in order to get out of the 42-year-old King World distribution contract.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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In an extra surprise, Samantha and Austin turned out to be secretly married the entire time, having privately eloped a month ago.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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In a startling number of instances, women eloped, making their choices before parents could intervene—or even, in Angelica’s case, flying in the face of paternal disapproval.—
Jane Kamensky,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 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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Like, the amount of money the band could make off of one album could be more than potentially the entire career of the band, and that’s not fair to me.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
30 Oct. 2025
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The thieves took less than eight minutes to make off with eight pieces of the French crown jewels, valued at roughly €88 million ($102 million).—
Barney Henderson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 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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“Decamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decamp. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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