evacuation

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Recent Examples of evacuation Every wildfire season, Californians face the same challenge: accessing reliable, current information about evacuation orders and fire containment status. Mark Dalton, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025 Officials said forward progress had been stopped overnight, though evacuation orders and warnings remain in place for several zones. Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025 The Billy Fire in Gila County prompted new evacuation orders for some residents, according to officials with the Tonto National Forest. Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 11 Aug. 2025 Katie Munds, the county emergency services coordinator, encouraged people to know their evacuation zones and to sign up for alerts as conditions change. Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for evacuation
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Noun
  • In recent years, the agency has suffered an exodus of experienced firefighters.
    Abe Streep, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Funding cuts would throw this pipeline into disarray and cause an exodus of experienced workers, Hendrix says.
    Hannah Richter, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For decades, the country has struggled under deeply adverse demographics, with deaths outpacing births and successive waves of mass emigration.
    Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The costs of emigration have gone down, and the rewards of it have become all the more apparent.
    The Editors, National Review, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • The point at which individuals can access their portfolios without penalty is just part of the equation; ensuring that the portfolio growth can sustain the rate of withdrawal over the period of many years is just as crucial.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In these unfortunate circumstances, taxpayers should speak with a qualified tax professional to determine whether there are valid methods to mitigate against the often unfair tax consequences associated with the retirement fund withdrawal.
    Matthew L. Roberts, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In particular, the indictment says, the duo directly solicited money transfers from members of the Haitian diaspora in the U.S. Funds were sent to intermediaries in Haiti for Chérizier’s benefit.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Where is the outrage from within Israel, outside of a small, if increasingly vocal, minority? Where is the outrage from the diaspora?
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • SpaceX redesigns Starship ahead of flight 10 SpaceX also revealed a redesign to Starship earlier in August after the first three test flights of 2025 all ended in dramatic explosions in the sky.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The unveiling of Faro airport in July 1965 opened the floodgates for the first charter flights.
    Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Preparing for retirement: Stocks have taken a beating.
    Russ Wiles, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • For many of us, the default option in our retirement accounts is a target date fund, many of which invest in GEO Group and other for-profit prison companies.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Hoever’s departure from the first-team picture was far from ordinary.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The bus shelter was on a paved section of the airport departures area where people were being dropped off by taxis, friends, family.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Evacuation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuation. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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