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 And even though there were multiple egress points. Michael McShane, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025 Firstly, there is already a Cloudflare/Apple partnership with iCloud Private Relay where Apple acts as the ingress proxy and Cloudflare as the egress proxy using OHTTP technology. Stockstory Team, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025 Implementing a multi-cloud approach requires a thorough understanding of egress costs and ensuring that, when calculating application costs, all associated expenses are accounted for. Vikas Agarwal, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 It was seen disappearing (ingress) and then appearing again (egress) from across North America while in the constellation Gemini. Jamie Carter, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for egress
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  • Jalen Brunson endured physical play in the Knicks’ 100-94 Game 2 loss to the Detroit Pistons at Madison Square Garden on Monday, alarming fans with another brief but unsettling late-game exit.
    C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Former Vice President Kamala Harris won 55% of voters with a college degree during last fall’s election, per NBC exit polling, while Trump won among non-college graduates, including 67% of white non-college graduates.
    Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Egress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/egress. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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