as in fled
to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening
when a fight broke out, we hightailed it out of the bar
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The Haitian immigrant, along with hundreds of thousands of others in the past decade, fled his home country to escape violence and repression.—
Dan Horn,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Feb. 2026 -
Mitchell’s companion yanked a necklace off Reed’s neck before both suspects fled the area, authorities said.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Keller then challenged him to a fight and the student retreated into the hall.—
Katie Langford,
Denver Post,
6 Feb. 2026
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Mohr wrote the 12 songs on Carve over the course of five years, and eventually retreated to the rural Mojave Desert to properly record them.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
5 Feb. 2026
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The goal is to let developers of all skill levels build and deploy agentic workflows with governance embedded by default, rather than bolted on after the fact.—
Victor Dey,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Vladislav Gavrikov, who bolted in free agency over the summer, returned to his old stomping grounds for the first time and picked up an assist for his new team and an unwelcome one for his former cohorts as well.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
21 Jan. 2026
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That season’s squad, which had gone to the NIT three straight years, escaped the non-conference schedule with a record of 9-2.—
PJ Green,
Kansas City Star,
5 Feb. 2026
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The rescue came about after Jordan Turpin — who was 17 at the time — escaped from the home and told authorities about their captivity and abuse.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
4 Feb. 2026
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One of the defining images of this Super Bowl run for Patriots fans will be a bloodied Vrabel, grinning after a celebratory headbutt from Milton Williams after a fourth-down sack that sealed a wild-card win over the Los Angeles Chargers.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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This enables users to remotely run complex experiments involving AI and other cutting-edge methods 24/7.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Hightailed (it).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hightailed%20%28it%29. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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