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Recent Examples of scram
Zoom in: Privacy and security are big: The house has a private gate and parking so no one has to use the main door, security offices for guests' staff and a bedroom with a secret exit should important visitors need to scram.
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Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
As of now, one man sits on a small dock off each island, telling onlookers to scram.
—Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
When Fleck makes a young boy on the bus laugh with his goofy faces, he’s immediately met with a threat from the boy’s mother to cut it out and scram.
—David Betancourt, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
In three seasons with the Pacers (before Donnie Walsh ditched him after Indiana brought back Larry Bird) and two more with the Knicks (before Walsh, again, told him to scram), Thomas has a 187-223 record (.456).
—Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2018
Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
As of now, one man sits on a small dock off each island, telling onlookers to scram.
—Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
When Fleck makes a young boy on the bus laugh with his goofy faces, he’s immediately met with a threat from the boy’s mother to cut it out and scram.
—David Betancourt, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
In three seasons with the Pacers (before Donnie Walsh ditched him after Indiana brought back Larry Bird) and two more with the Knicks (before Walsh, again, told him to scram), Thomas has a 187-223 record (.456).
—Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scram
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Found also faced a new story paradigm in Season 2 as one of the key elements of its premise changed with Sir (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) escaping from Gabi’s (Hampton) basement in the Season 1 finale.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
9 May 2025
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Wainwright, who had escaped from a North Carolina prison days before killing 23-year-old Carmen Gayheart, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on June 10 at Florida State Prison.—
Jim Saunders,
Sun Sentinel,
9 May 2025
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The Oilers got out in front early, scoring just 1:27 into the game off the stick of Adam Henrique, his second goal of the playoffs, which turned out to be all the Oilers would need.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
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Luckily, all the scammers got out of me was a quick bite on the end of their phishing lure.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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The two men absconded with cash and credit cards before fleeing the scene.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Rhea even absconded with a contract that did not have her name on it like a shady politician trying to overturn an election.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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The studio’s longtime box-office rainmaker Christopher Nolan, meanwhile, decamped to Universal to make his next billion-dollar movie, Oppenheimer.—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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Ellen DeGeneres, who decamped last year for the U.K., recently clashed with locals in her town for proposing an extension that would potentially disturb ancient Roman remains.—
Bridget Read,
Curbed,
15 Apr. 2025
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The pair later eloped to Las Vegas and were married on May 1, 1996, at the Chapel of the Bells venue a year after meeting.—
Sarah Jones,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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Yet even as the party showcases a solidly deep bench of experience 2028 contenders, there is a nagging narrative, mostly in media circles, that Democrats should mimic the GOP by eloping with a non-traditional candidate with a massive entertainment or social media footprint.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
4 May 2025
Verb
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The conspirators pulled guns and made off with around $21,000 in cash.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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The man smashed a glass door at a Chesapeake post office in June and made off with keys, prosecutors said.—
Sara Schilling,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2025
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Taylor Tomlinson will host After Midnight, the show that is replacing The Late Late Show now that James Corden has scarpered off to old Blighty.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
1 Nov. 2023
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Idrissa Gueye has scarpered, but that void was instantly filled by Mainz midfielder Jean-Philippe Gbamin - while Moise Kean, goodness knows how, has signed from Juventus to sharpen things up front.—
SI.com,
SI.com,
5 Aug. 2019
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No studio would finance the feature, about a whorehouse exhibitionist who lams it after being framed for murder — so director Melvin Van Peebles financed it himself with a boost from Bill Cosby, who gave him a $50,000 loan.—
Andrew Lawrence,
Peoplemag,
17 Feb. 2024
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One of those classic films that’s as good as its reputation (and maybe even better), Billy Wilder’s high-spirited comedy stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as jazz musicians who have to lam it after witnessing a mob crime.—
Keith Phipps,
Rolling Stone,
1 May 2023
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“Scram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scram. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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