WALKAWAY Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

walkaway

noun

Definition of walkaway

as in sweep

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Recent Examples of walkaway Despite the walkaway, CDCR said nearly all who leave such programs without permission are eventually apprehended — a rate of 99% since 1977, officials touted in the news release. — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2025 The Post’s count of walkaway deaths included three at Brookdale facilities and one at a Sunrise facility. — Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024

Recent Examples of Synonyms for walkaway

Noun

Murphy celebrated Milwaukee’s NL Championship Series sweep by saying the Los Angeles Dodgers had Hall of Famers but his team had gamers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
Its variable-sweep wings can be adjusted between 20 and 65 degrees, allowing the bomber to operate efficiently at lower speeds and during supersonic flight.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of sweep

Noun

The trigger for lithium-ion battery fires is a process called thermal runaway, a cascading sequence of heat-releasing reactions inside the battery cell.

— Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
In The Runaway, Rockwell illustrated a runaway at a diner getting help from a police officer.

— Rakesh Agrawal, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of runaway

Noun

What goes up … But by the midterm year of 1966, much of the energy from LBJ's landslide election in 1964 had been expended — and much more had been siphoned off by his escalation of the war in Vietnam.

— Ron Elving, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
Last year, the line was closed for a month for repairs designed to protect it against landslides.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of landslide

Noun

The blowout news from SpaceX’s Q3 earnings wasn’t the rocket and AI giant’s outstanding performance that far exceeded even the analysts’ elevated expectations, but Elon Musk’s revelation that SpaceX and Tesla are weighing a merger.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Then came Tuesday's blowout SpaceX earnings, and growth roared back.

— Todd Gordon, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of blowout

Noun

For decades, the United States favored an international order that forbade wars of conquest, upheld freedom of the seas, maintained a generally open global economy, and allowed populations to exercise democratic rights, even if autocracies remained.

— Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026
Napoleon Bonaparte, having already lost half a million soldiers in Russia, was still an emperor dreaming of new conquests.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of conquest

Noun

The film, about Spain’s colonial subjugation of the Philippines, is one of the Filipino auteur’s shorter features running ‘only’ 2 hours 31 minutes.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2026
The Civil War breaking out just a century later showcases why white supremacy and the subjugation of Black people and people of color have meant a certain level of instability for many American citizens since the very beginning.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 June 2026

Definition of subjugation

Noun

The Houthis ramped up their advance on Taiz last month, after a lightning-fast capture of the port city of Mokha, an area about 130 kilometers (80 miles) away that is vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Since the 2009 financial crisis, Africa’s biggest economy went on a spending frenzy, running deficits, racking up debt and offering a rich menu of excuses — ranging from global crises, sluggish growth, state capture and COVID-19.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026