as in to get (away)
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Spacetime may be more strongly curved inside of a black hole’s event horizon, but anything that happens in there can’t get out; nothing can escape a black hole’s interior, even at the speed of light.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025 -
In November 2024, CBS countersued, arguing that Sony had created a false pretext in order to get out of the 42-year-old King World distribution contract.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Four guys, using a cherry picker truck to scale the side of the museum, break through a second-floor window, scoop up to $100 million worth of French crown jewelry and make off with the loot on motor scooters in under 10 minutes.—
Greg Palkot,
FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Police believe that these seven people were connected with a group of more than a dozen robbers who rammed a car into the front of Kim Hung Jewelry on Aborn Road in San Jose on Sept. 5 and made off with a bounty of jewelry, authorities said at a news conference.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
3 Oct. 2025
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Elliot heard from people who have loved ones at Columbia Correctional Institutions in Lake City that two dorms there had been cleared out.—
Shirsho Dasgupta,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Run the disposal to clear out odors and buildup.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Epstein story is all about people who are sufficiently rich or entitled escaping the full consequences of their actions, something that is still happening here.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
25 Oct. 2025
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Seven years after disappearing from his California home in 1972, 14-year-old Steven Stayner escaped his kidnapper, Kenneth Parnell, and returned to his family in 1980.—
James Mercadante,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Skip (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skip%20%28out%29. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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