as in exit
a place or means of going out
the only egress from the nightclub was a dark, narrow stairway to the street below
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Recent Examples of egress
While egress windows can be designed using styles like casement or sliding windows, the defining feature is their code-compliant opening size and placement.
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Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
The whole point of this design is not just to make ingress/egress easier for a rider.
—New Atlas, 28 Nov. 2025
Schools are designed for safe egress in an emergency.
—Scott Feuless, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
Its smaller size makes the Gallardo easier to use on real-world roads, while conventional doors—rather than unwieldy scissor-style contraptions—allow normal ingress/egress, and once inside, even tall drivers can see and function with relative ease.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2025
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Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
The whole point of this design is not just to make ingress/egress easier for a rider.
—New Atlas, 28 Nov. 2025
Schools are designed for safe egress in an emergency.
—Scott Feuless, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
Its smaller size makes the Gallardo easier to use on real-world roads, while conventional doors—rather than unwieldy scissor-style contraptions—allow normal ingress/egress, and once inside, even tall drivers can see and function with relative ease.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for egress
exit
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There is a road closure on West 107th Street from exit 81 to US-69 North.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
20 Feb. 2026
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Put aside that Anthropic is said to actually be a Workday client; this company was wracked by a not-so-hot last quarter, one that prompted the return of Aneel Bhusri and the exit of Carl Eschenbach, who was viewed by Wall Street as a suboptimal CEO.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Egress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/egress. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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