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verb

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Recent Examples of lam
Noun
When Jax loses custody of her niece to the state, the two go on the lam to find Roki's missing mon. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024 Six months later, he was found in Costa Rica and extradited back to Colorado (Hunsaker later claimed in court filings that going on the lam was his lawyer’s idea). Zach Everson, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Verb
Ryan Gosling stars as Court Gentry, a CIA agent forced to lam it after uncovering some secrets. Tim Chan, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2022 Photo: Reuters/Stephen lam Apple’s extravagant unveiling on Monday of AppleTV+, its new video content streaming service, unveiled very little. Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2019 See All Example Sentences for lam
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lam
Noun
  • But in the third part of this book, entitled Escape, Dr Gee proposes a rather bizarre solution to our impending demise: establish colonies in space.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • Investigators agreed, according to an FBI case memo filed three days after the escape.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 11 May 2025
Verb
  • The cruel politics of South Carolina lawmakers are harming families and destroying a health care system as more and more providers flee the state.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
  • In the past, a similar violation might have led to a fine. Petrova, a top-tier researcher, fled Russia after protesting Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine and had been working in a Harvard Medical School lab for two years.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 14 May 2025
Verb
  • Books about fictional weddings fly off the shelves of bookstores, too.
    Lian Dolan, People.com, 20 May 2025
  • Washington left the event shortly after the screening began, having flown to France for the festival on his sole day off, portraying the titular role in Broadway's latest production of Othello.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 20 May 2025

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