as in departs
to leave a place often for another
I went looking for Sally at the pub, but she'd scarpered
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An American Airlines Airbus A321 taxis at San Diego International Airport as a United Airlines airplane departs on August 24, 2024 in San Diego, California.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
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The full Interconnect Tour departs from Deer Valley Resort in Park City, leading skiers on a traverse along the Wasatch Mountain range with visits to Park City Mountain Resort, Solitude, Brighton, Alta, and Snowbird.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Oct. 2025
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Rhincodon typus, to use their scientific name, eat their ample fill by ram filter-feeding, vacuuming up gallons of water to strain out small prey before the water exits their gills.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Oct. 2025
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The secondary rainbow is caused by a second reflection inside the droplet, and this ‘re-reflected’ light exits the drop at a different angle—50 degrees instead of 42 degrees for the red primary bow.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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The country’s instant payments system, Pix, introduced by the central bank in 2020, now moves more money than credit and debit cards combined.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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Those rulings will shape whether the prosecution moves toward trial or stalls amid continuing questions about politics, process, and prosecutorial independence.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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After Lazio at the weekend, the algorithm gets kinder.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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The likelihood of lightning increases as a thunderstorm gets closer and reaches its highest point when the storm is directly overhead.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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The story goes that at the homecoming pep rally in 1995, then-student body president Michael Torregrossa was pushed into the pond by other student government members.—
Jordy Fee-Platt,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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These spots are all gone, but now, due in part to the rise of #BookTok, where genre fiction often goes viral, booksellers are once again getting more targeted in their approach.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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Players take on the role of Enzo Favaro, a miner who survives a tunnel collapse and flees the pit after insubordinately attacking a cruel underboss.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
15 Oct. 2025
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Blazy gives Odhiang a deep hug, jogs around the runway, and flees toward the exit, smiling.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
14 Oct. 2025
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This partnership was designed to reach an urban audience that is culturally engaged in art, music and design, but still escapes to the park for a morning run.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
27 Oct. 2025
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Back in Europe, Savoie, France, is also seeing a bump in travel interest, drawing visitors to its alpine villages, ski towns and year-round mountain escapes.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Scarpers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scarpers. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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