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scapes

verb

present tense third-person singular of scape

as in avoids

to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery the queen has vowed that none of the traitors shall scape the gallows, be their station ever so high

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This configuration avoids the internal current disruptions that can challenge tokamak designs, offering a distinct pathway to stable, long-term power plant operations.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 July 2026
Hiding workforce-scale spend in IT line items avoids the conversation; treating it as labor distorts it.

— Priya Sawant, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

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However, Noussair Mazraoui evades Casemiro’s challenge far too easily before Bilal El Khannouss releases Achraf Hakimi on the far side.

— Mark Carey, New York Times, 6 July 2026
If the armed forces are the instrument through which the president evades the Constitution, then the leaders of those armed forces must answer for their role.

— Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 25 June 2026

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In this year’s survey, more than 661,000 votes were cast—on city and island escapes, safari outfitters, airlines, and hotels around the world.

— Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
California has laws in place regarding driving vehicles with load that escapes from it and what types of items can be carried and how.

— Paris Barraza, USA Today, 7 July 2026

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