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Recent Examples of elope
The RuPaul’s Drag Race star and her husband, producer Michael Alvarez, eloped wearing outfits that flipped tradition on its head.
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Dave Quinn, People.com, 26 June 2025
The couple eloped inside Crater Lake National Park in Oregon near the historic Crater Lake Lodge.
—Sarah Sekula, USA Today, 25 June 2025
The city of love is a favorite spot for couples looking to elope.
—Shelby Wax, Vogue, 24 June 2025
The pair elope in Las Vegas after the Billboard Music Awards.
—Glamour, 24 May 2025
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Dave Quinn, People.com, 26 June 2025
The couple eloped inside Crater Lake National Park in Oregon near the historic Crater Lake Lodge.
—Sarah Sekula, USA Today, 25 June 2025
The city of love is a favorite spot for couples looking to elope.
—Shelby Wax, Vogue, 24 June 2025
The pair elope in Las Vegas after the Billboard Music Awards.
—Glamour, 24 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elope
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For more than two decades, a special team of Mexican police officers has quietly worked along the northern border to track down and deport foreign fugitives who cross into Mexico to escape criminal charges in their home countries.—
Time,
Time,
9 July 2025
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Tanya Ramsey's brother and mother were staying in a cabin 100 yards away, and Jeff Ramsey's call to them gave them enough time to escape, Jake Ramsey said.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
9 July 2025
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Not unlike Annie, Stack’s ex-lover Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) feels scorned after being abandoned for seven years in Mississippi while Stack absconded to Chicago for money.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2025
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Sand, the more skittish of the pair, absconded to Canada.—
John Semley,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2025
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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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Since October, Newsom has advocated for expanding the available amount of money from $330 million to $750 million as Hollywood has hemorrhaged jobs due to the pandemic, strikes by writers and actors, and sets being decamped to economically-friendlier states like Georgia.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
3 July 2025
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And then there was the schadenfreude of those who had already decamped to greener pastures.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
30 June 2025
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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.—
Mimi Montgomery,
Axios,
11 Oct. 2024
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As of now, one man sits on a small dock off each island, telling onlookers to scram.—
Danielle Paquette,
Washington Post,
12 Dec. 2019
Verb
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So, just recently, in – in the Midwest, that work by NOAA and the weather forecasting system and the labs helped give information about how to get out of the way of a tornado two hours in advance, not 15 minutes or 13 minutes, but two hours.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 July 2025
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Fried threw one more pitch, a changeup, to get out of the inning and then showed the Yankees the blister.—
Brendan Kuty,
New York Times,
12 July 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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“Elope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elope. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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