withdraw (from)

verb

Definition of withdraw (from)next
as in to retreat (from)

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  1. escape
  2. cut off
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  • The Kansas City Royals cannot escape the injury bug this season.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026
  • Instead, forecasters are monitoring a recurrent coronal hole, an area where the sun’s magnetic field opens into space and allows faster solar wind to escape.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
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  • D4vd then allegedly cut off her left ring and pinky fingers because her ring finger had a tattoo of his name.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • Fenced in and barred from foraging, fishing, hunting, and farming, Indigenous peoples were intentionally cut off from the calorie-rich landscapes that had fed them for millennia.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
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