as in departure
the act of leaving a place
the mass decamping for the mountains or the shore by city dwellers that occurs every summer weekend
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The trade comes after years of uncertainty surrounding Milwaukee's direction following the departure of championship-winning head coach Mike Budenholzer in 2023 and caps a steady decline that culminated in the Bucks missing the 2026 playoffs.
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The pound eased against major currencies as speculation mounted that Starmer was going to set out a timetable for his departure.
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Engineers have been trying to capture this escaping waste heat and turn it back into electricity using thermoelectric devices.
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The current population is a result of the toads escaping or being released by importers during the 1950s and ‘60s, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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The side referee puts up the flag for offside, and this one remains scoreless in the early going.
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The Real Madrid star has been England’s best player in the early goings of this tournament.
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Police are searching for a straphanger suspected of unbolting a door switch from a inside a downtown C train Monday evening, snipping the wires and then absconding with the train part, sources tell the Daily News.
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For the last couple of years at least, groups of international thieves have been traveling to Southern California and burglarizing homes and stores before absconding back to their home countries.
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Trees that remain standing lose their leaves and big limbs, and that trauma shows in their rings.
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The city’s police department previously said the officer was placed on leave.
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Cendejas said Wahab needs to focus her time on getting out to voters in the district while the state Legislature is in recess between July and August.
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Stewart surrendered a solo homer to Brooks Lee before getting out of the ninth.
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The nationalism is real too, but a man flying his country’s flag in a stranger’s city is not retreating into his nation.
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Because of Oracle’s retreating stock price, Ellison has been surpassed on the world’s list of wealthiest people by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell.
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“Decamping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decamping. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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