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Recent Examples of elope
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.
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Sarah Jones, People.com, 9 May 2025
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
After that experience, at the age of 19, Mr. Vargas Llosa eloped with Julia Urquidi Illanes, his uncle’s sister-in-law, who was 29.
—Simon Romero, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
But their plans to quietly elope are upended when his grandmother flies in from Korea to throw a big wedding.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 20 Apr. 2025
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Sarah Jones, People.com, 9 May 2025
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
After that experience, at the age of 19, Mr. Vargas Llosa eloped with Julia Urquidi Illanes, his uncle’s sister-in-law, who was 29.
—Simon Romero, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
But their plans to quietly elope are upended when his grandmother flies in from Korea to throw a big wedding.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 20 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elope
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The individual then escaped, believed to have escaped outside the back of the house.—
Mandy Taheri
Peter Aitken
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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Heat escapes its atmosphere so quickly that, were one to stand at its equator at noon with skin exposed — not a great idea!—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2025
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Thirteen Excel players, including Ian Happ, Adam Ottavino and Anthony Volpe, absconded to WME Sports with the duo, while several more players left for other agencies.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
22 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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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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O’Donnell, who has traded public jibes with Trump for almost two decades, decamped to Ireland in January with her non-binary child, and is seeking citizenship based on her ancestry.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN Money,
3 June 2025
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By the next afternoon, the art crowd had decamped and Hydra returned to its serene summer pace, with other low-key art sites revealing themselves like sculptural rocks at low tide.—
Tony Perrottet,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 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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Bayern are a high-pressing team who will try to lock opponents into their own third or force them to play long to get out of it.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
7 June 2025
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With Haliburton on the floor, Toppin handed him the rock while his teammates got out of the way.—
Tony East,
Forbes.com,
7 June 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 Jun. 2025.
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