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Recent Examples of escape hatch
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.
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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
Critically, Netanyahu appeared to structure a deal which includes his favorite escape hatch.
—Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
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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
Critically, Netanyahu appeared to structure a deal which includes his favorite escape hatch.
—Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for escape hatch
Noun
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Visit the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory for a year-round indoor escape full of lush plants.—
Iona Brannon,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2026
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But in their daring escape through the window, the crown of Empress Eugénie slipped from their grasp and was left battered on the pavement below.—
Laura Sharman,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Among this group, 802 cancer survivors provided dietary information via a questionnaire from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), according to the press release.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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The release said Lovely lives near where the fire occurred.—
Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Escape hatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/escape%20hatch. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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