1
as in disappearing
to cease to be visible
the fog fled with the arrival of the dawn
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2
as in escaping
to get free from a dangerous or confining situation
a murderer who fled on foot
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as in retreating
to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening
a toddler who fled when the ladybug he had been quietly watching suddenly began flying around the room
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Recent Examples of fleeing
Bolsonaro is under house arrest, surrounded by guards to prevent him from fleeing to a foreign embassy to request asylum.
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Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Campuses are also a common site for hoax active shooter reports, which often causes mass panic and sends students fleeing for safety.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Then a seventh person, who was believed to be a drug customer, drove to the residence before fleeing from police.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
An image released showed a man and smaller person, both dressed in black, fleeing the scene on a motorbike.
—Todd Symons, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Prosecutors allege Prowell first met Miguel Angel King, 51, on July 20, 2021, and fatally shot him before fleeing in his car.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Surveillance footage released by police captured part of the shooting and the gunman fleeing the scene.
—Mike Stunson, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
The teaser ends with Kayce chasing after two fleeing black SUVs.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
Rajab and her family had been fleeing Gaza City when their vehicle was shelled, killing her uncle, aunt and three cousins.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Campuses are also a common site for hoax active shooter reports, which often causes mass panic and sends students fleeing for safety.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Then a seventh person, who was believed to be a drug customer, drove to the residence before fleeing from police.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
An image released showed a man and smaller person, both dressed in black, fleeing the scene on a motorbike.
—Todd Symons, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Prosecutors allege Prowell first met Miguel Angel King, 51, on July 20, 2021, and fatally shot him before fleeing in his car.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Surveillance footage released by police captured part of the shooting and the gunman fleeing the scene.
—Mike Stunson, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
The teaser ends with Kayce chasing after two fleeing black SUVs.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
Rajab and her family had been fleeing Gaza City when their vehicle was shelled, killing her uncle, aunt and three cousins.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fleeing
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What has brought these species back while others are disappearing?—
Tom Langen,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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Younger Americans are worried that Social Security is disappearing.—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
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The Minnesota Vikings were on the short end of the score for three quarters as Caleb Williams was running and escaping from the pass rush and the Chicago Bears appeared to be on their way to a season-opening victory against the division rivals.—
Steve Silverman,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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This is psychoanalysis, plainly, and there is no escaping the mediation of the psyche.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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With a signature bright plum lip and highlight in her hair, Williams, 61, kept her people close but didn't shy away from the camera, allowing the fashion week photogs to capture her for a solid 15 minutes before retreating to one of the presentation's regal showrooms.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
15 Sep. 2025
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That is because buyers have been retreating from the market due to ongoing affordability issues, including still-rising home prices, historically elevated mortgage rates, and growing economic concern linked to government policies.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Demerzel shields the embryo with her body, and both are incinerated, vanishing in a white-hot instant, love and code consumed together.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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The sterile cockpit rule prohibits pilots from engaging in conversations unrelated to operating the aircraft when flying below 10,000 feet.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps the easiest was an airplane flying overhead.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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This does not mean bolting on new features to your existing products, nor hiring an AI person here or there.—
Barry Libert,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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As reports from the Ukraine war show, taking a drone and bolting a Claymore mine to it isn't new.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Aug. 2025
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This revealed that, even as the X-ray emissions of 4U 1630-472 were fading, the system was still ejecting material at an incredible 20 million mph (32 million kph) — about 3% the speed of light, and 15,000 times faster than the top speed of an F-16 jet fighter!—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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All of these weaknesses are either gone or fading fast.—
Michael Foster,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Hochul is running for a second term as New York’s governor.—
Lauren Green,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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Traditional shoe testing depends on athletes running multiple sessions across weeks to produce a usable dataset.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Fleeing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fleeing. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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