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Recent Examples of elope
Internet reacts After arriving in Italy, where the couple eloped August 28, Barbee shared the ordeal in a TikTok post that quickly went viral.
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
In 1846, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elope.
—Lit Hub Daily, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
The Game of Thrones actor and Schmidt, who is an award-winning playwright and theater director, met through mutual friends in 2003 and eloped in 2005.
—Caroline Blair, People.com, 11 July 2025
Not one of these children have died and none of them have escaped to elope when using their anchoring dog.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2024
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
In 1846, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elope.
—Lit Hub Daily, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
The Game of Thrones actor and Schmidt, who is an award-winning playwright and theater director, met through mutual friends in 2003 and eloped in 2005.
—Caroline Blair, People.com, 11 July 2025
Not one of these children have died and none of them have escaped to elope when using their anchoring dog.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elope
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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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
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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
Verb
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Not for the first time in their existence, Arsenal are thinking about decamping to Wembley.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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In January of 2021, Shelby decamped to the proving grounds at Kennedy Space Center for a redux, bringing ample recording devices and external groups to monitor.—
Ben Oliver,
Robb Report,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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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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
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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
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“Elope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elope. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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