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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 first escape occurred on April 3, 1996, when Froberg, serving time for armed robbery, escaped from a work detail and stole a 1986 Oldsmobile from an elderly woman.—
Monroe Trombly,
Louisville Courier Journal,
27 Feb. 2026
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Bumgarner said Froberg stayed with the nurse for about a week before traveling to Pennsylvania, where he was arrested in August 1996 in connection with the Alabama prison escape.—
Minyvonne Burke,
NBC news,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan criticized Shah Alam’s release by Border Patrol, saying agents could have contacted family members or returned him to the county holding center.—
Alisha Ebrahimji,
CNN Money,
27 Feb. 2026
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Gates appears multiple times in the Justice Department's release of documents connected to its investigation of the late financier.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Escape hatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/escape%20hatch. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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