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Recent Examples of elope
The two actors eloped in March 2025 at an intimate, private ceremony in their Los Angeles home.
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Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 21 July 2025
After 19 years and two sons together, Jenny and Willy McLaughlin eloped on a Florida beach last week.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2025
During an April interview with People starring the mother-daughter duo, Ripa was opening up about eloping with her husband nearly three decades ago when the two got married in Las Vegas.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
After secretly eloping in 1996 while filming, the pair went on to have three children and work together on various projects like Hope & Faith.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 15 June 2025
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Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 21 July 2025
After 19 years and two sons together, Jenny and Willy McLaughlin eloped on a Florida beach last week.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2025
During an April interview with People starring the mother-daughter duo, Ripa was opening up about eloping with her husband nearly three decades ago when the two got married in Las Vegas.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
After secretly eloping in 1996 while filming, the pair went on to have three children and work together on various projects like Hope & Faith.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 15 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elope
Verb
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Most want to see better protections and less exploitation of fighters so that they are exposed to the least amount of danger in a sport that cannot escape it.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Sep. 2025
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Tom Phillips absconded with his three children in 2021 after an alleged dispute with their mother.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
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Past efforts by Democrats to abscond and deny Republicans a quorum similarly only delayed the passage of bills, but didn’t quash them.—
Jesse Bedayn,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Aug. 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
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Throughout the year, a furious Musk decamped from his incorporation in Delaware.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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The Domain functions as an expansive outdoor classroom for environmental science courses as professors regularly decamp to hiking trails for their lectures and students learn the different shapes of the leaves while walking beneath them.—
Caroline Rogers,
Southern Living,
30 Aug. 2025
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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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Brian Williams, who is at the anchor desk at the time, told her to get out of there.—
Rachel Burchfield,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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There's no reason NOT to get out this weekend – there's an event for everyone.—
Caroline Ritzie,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
11 Sep. 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 18 Sep. 2025.
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