escaped 1 of 2

past tense of escape

escaped

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adjective

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Recent Examples of escaped
Adjective
Anderson, who retired his first 10 batters, walked the bases loaded with one out in the fourth, but escaped the jam by striking out Jeremy Peña and getting Diaz to line out. Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2025 India escaped the scary moment unscathed. Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2025 The actor escaped eviction following the public vote, which opted to evict the controversial conservative politician Michael Fabricant instead. Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 12 Apr. 2025 The pilot escaped but the passengers couldn’t get out of their safety harnesses and drowned. Philip Marcelo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2025 The other helicopter went into the Hudson River and sank while being maneuvered at a heliport, but the pilot escaped. Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025 For one thing, she was orphaned, with biologists hypothesizing that either her herd left the area or she had somehow been taken by humans to an area further inland and escaped. Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025 By the late 1860s, Crumpler had moved back to Boston with her second husband, Arthur Crumpler, who had escaped from slavery in Virginia during the Civil War. Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025 Baccarin made her debut as Mickey in an April 2024 episode of Fire Country, in which a fire camp inmate escaped from Three Rock and Edgewater’s deputy sheriff was called to investigate. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 31 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for escaped
Verb
  • Acosta-Hernandez fled the vehicle on foot and officers established a perimeter.
    Graeme Taskerud, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2025
  • During the on-scene investigation, troopers learned that the alleged driver that fled the scene was Matthew Perez, 21, of West Haven.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • But in life James resisted metaphor and evaded attention.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
  • DeAngelo evaded prosecution for years while committing a string of murders and rapes across the Golden State between 1974 and 1986, including two murders and nine kidnappings in Sacramento County alone.
    Lia Russell, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Another unconfined delegation that should be subject to judicial scrutiny is provided by the Civil Rights Restoration Act, passed by the Democrats over President Ronald Reagan’s veto, which established the government’s power to arbitrarily withhold funding from universities.
    George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2025
  • This accounted for just 3 percent of heating fires overall, but these led to more than 40 percent of fatalities, in part because portable heaters tend to be placed precisely where people live and sleep, and because the resulting fires are far more likely to be unconfined.
    Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • At best, this results in superficial engagement—teams may appear aligned on the surface but lack genuine buy-in as difficult conversations are avoided.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • And who has avoided injuries while the rest of the squad have struggled?
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Daily Telegraph reported that the death was also similar to that of toddler Jack Mackay, who died in the same area in 2013 while playing in his crib with a loose curtain cord, which tragically wrapped around his neck.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 24 June 2025
  • There are questions over whether Iran’s nuclear facilities were damaged to the point of uselessness, how much loose nuclear material may now be floating around Iran, and the speed with which Iran can reconstitute its program.
    The Editors, National Review, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • The protagonist of this beguiling novel, Lina, lives with her father in a realm seemingly unbound by ordinary time.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • Today, China’s giant mining and refining companies operate without much pressure to remain commercially viable, unbound by many constraints on firms funded by private investors and lenders.
    Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • To be sure, the unrestrained freedom to destroy the country’s wild legacy for money bought many of these people houses, islands, and ranches.
    Dan Flores, Time, 29 May 2025
  • Befitting the unrestrained opulence associated with Marie Antoinette, the ring features smaller diamonds on the finger band and the pink diamond’s setting.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Saturday Night Live comedian paired a textured white blazer with white denim jeans, a crisp white shirt — with a few buttons undone — and bright white sneakers to complete his look.
    Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 24 June 2025
  • Goggins, with many shirt buttons undone, is a libidinous waiter who takes his flirting with the mothers to extremes.
    Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025

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