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Recent Examples of evacuate
If told to evacuate, do so immediately.
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Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 19 Feb. 2026
In Beaver County, the town of Tyrone was evacuated earlier as a precaution.
—Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
Everyone who had already arrived at school was evacuated while police searched the building, and district officials redirected buses to another location.
—Silas Allen, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
Passengers were evacuated via slides in an incident that briefly suspended flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, officials said Wednesday.
—Clara McMichael, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
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Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 19 Feb. 2026
In Beaver County, the town of Tyrone was evacuated earlier as a precaution.
—Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
Everyone who had already arrived at school was evacuated while police searched the building, and district officials redirected buses to another location.
—Silas Allen, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
Passengers were evacuated via slides in an incident that briefly suspended flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, officials said Wednesday.
—Clara McMichael, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evacuate
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The espresso has arrived and been tossed back, and the restaurant has emptied, much as at the end of My Dinner With André.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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Streets emptied, schedules shifted, and daily life reorganized itself around kickoff times.—
Rafaela Jinich,
The Atlantic,
22 Feb. 2026
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Under state law, a successor must run to represent the original district boundaries when a congressional representative vacates office.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
21 Feb. 2026
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Despite giving Page a notice to vacate by February 20, the complaint suggested Page likely will not leave by then, and an eviction proceeding to get back possession of the townhouse almost certainly will drag on for a while.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
20 Feb. 2026
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Tuesday’s victory kept them in contention for the exclusive 40/20 club — 40 wins before their 20th loss — a benchmark all but three NBA champions since 1980 have cleared.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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The island runs its own desalination plant, generates minimal waste by the simple math of feeding its inhabitants largely from what grows on the property, and has preserved native forest, wetland gardens, and a hardwood canopy that most neighboring islands cleared decades ago.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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Don’t neglect cleaning the interior of the air fryer.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
20 Feb. 2026
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For instance, Data Engineers and Cloud Architects are now the essential architects of the digital age, cleaning and structuring the massive data sets that AI requires to function.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Evacuate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuate. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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