ESCAPER Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

escaper

noun

Definition of escaper

as in refugee

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Noun

Cárdenas, a civil engineer by training, was the son of President Lázaro Cárdenas, who nationalized the oil industry in 1938 and opened Mexico to refugees from the Spanish Civil War.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
He was martyred by the Nazis for aiding Jewish refugees during World War II.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of refugee

Noun

The Olympic Games are less than two years away, and the sheriff’s department will be expected to play a major role in keeping millions of visitors and athletes safe.

— Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
But visitors can also expect an unrivalled food scene, a thriving nightlife, world-class museums, unique architecture and a medieval old town that entices you to just keep wandering.

— Jaymi McCann, TheWeek, 3 Nov. 2026

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The selection embraces widely different approaches to filmmaking, from formally experimental work to more accessible independent productions, while exploring political upheaval, memory, exile and intimate family relationships.

— Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, whose television networks refused to bend the knee, were driven into exile within the year.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of exile

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Baksheng leaves behind a family and then creates a new one with other Teochew emigrants at an inn run by a feminist daughter, Zia Lamgi (Li Sitong) who dodges a revolving door of suitors.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026
The decision could have broad implications for descendants of Italian emigrants, particularly in North and South America, where large Italian diaspora communities have ancestral ties to Italy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of emigrant

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And their escape routes are narrowing; since Kim sealed off the borders during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of North Korean defectors reaching South Korea has plummeted.

— Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
Poaching defectors Netanyahu is likely looking for weak links in the opposition bloc, which spans Israel’s political spectrum.

— Tia Goldenberg, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of defector

Noun

But unlike most Israeli expatriates, his return voyage was a 10,000-mile, 30-plus-hour odyssey from a remote sheep station in the Australian outback to his village in the Galilee, in northern Israel.

— Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2026
Thousands of Serb expatriates in the United States, Australia and New Zealand face the same problem.

— Branimir Pipal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

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