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
Mission teams have secured the rocket's mobile launcher to infrastructure at the pad, connected power and communications linkages and installed the crew's emergency egress system.
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Brett Tingley, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
Largess also said there weren’t proper egress points on 4th Street to allow the dispersing crowd to escape.
—Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2026
The original measure required the next state building code to allow a single stairway as a means of egress in small residential buildings and passed as part of the 2024 bond package.
—Ct Mirror, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
City Manager Seimone Jurjis said next steps include doing more design work with the consultant to explore what a building at the park could look like and what other considerations, such as environmental factors, height and ingress and egress, could play a role.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 6 Feb. 2026
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Brett Tingley, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
Largess also said there weren’t proper egress points on 4th Street to allow the dispersing crowd to escape.
—Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2026
The original measure required the next state building code to allow a single stairway as a means of egress in small residential buildings and passed as part of the 2024 bond package.
—Ct Mirror, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
City Manager Seimone Jurjis said next steps include doing more design work with the consultant to explore what a building at the park could look like and what other considerations, such as environmental factors, height and ingress and egress, could play a role.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 6 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for egress
exit
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The vehicle then crashed into the concrete post near the exit to Antioch, bringing down the sign.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
24 Apr. 2026
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Video shows the cop grab Suarez by his jacket and haul him up the steps to the mezzanine, before pushing him out an emergency exit door by the turnstiles, court documents show.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Egress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/egress. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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