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Recent Examples of escape hatch
For Megan, romance books became an escape hatch.
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Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 23 Dec. 2025
Prosecutors said during closing arguments that Dugan’s actions followed frustration with immigration arrests in courthouses and amounted to an intentional effort to give Flores-Ruiz an escape hatch and buy him time to use it.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2025
Inside this opaque vortex of both nonideological and ideological mayhem, the Red Shambhala scene offers kids one (ridiculous) escape hatch away from the alt-violence pipeline.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
Each of the four has an escape hatch from the bears.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2025
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Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 23 Dec. 2025
Prosecutors said during closing arguments that Dugan’s actions followed frustration with immigration arrests in courthouses and amounted to an intentional effort to give Flores-Ruiz an escape hatch and buy him time to use it.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2025
Inside this opaque vortex of both nonideological and ideological mayhem, the Red Shambhala scene offers kids one (ridiculous) escape hatch away from the alt-violence pipeline.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
Each of the four has an escape hatch from the bears.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for escape hatch
Noun
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The Madison has extensive strains of DNA from Redford’s adaptation of The Horse Whisperer, with its emphasis on a rural escape as the ultimate salve for psychic wounds, but also Ordinary People, a film about the impact of grief on the family unit.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Mar. 2026
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In 2007, a Syrian journalism student arrived in Damascus for an exam with a secret escape plan.—
Lise Pedersen,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Traipsing down the Hollywood Farmers Market with giant heads of lettuce and overgrown bouquets feels not only like release, but also resistance and resilience.—
Elisa Wouk Almino
Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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The release of the subpoena comes as speculation about a federal investigation has ratcheted up within City Hall over the last year.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Escape hatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/escape%20hatch. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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