evacuation

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Recent Examples of evacuation Knowing your hurricane evacuation zone in advance can prevent stress and delays. MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025 Israel launches new assault on Gaza City New satellite imagery shows the massive evacuation of Palestinians from northern Gaza and Gaza City, where the Israeli military has intensified bombardments and started a ground invasion over the last week. Camilla Alcini, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2025 This creates the potential for payload delivery and even medical evacuation from orbit to any major metropolitan area. Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025 On Wednesday evening, several evacuation zones were downgraded to a warning, including those affecting Murphys. Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for evacuation
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Noun
  • But the organization had to recalibrate after DeWanna Bonner’s exodus and Caitlin Clark’s scratched sophomore year.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Here is a table of the corporate exodus from California since 2024, according to The California Book of Exoduses from California Policy Center.
    Tina Chen, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Tilbury Docks is a post-industrial wasteland of car parks, motorways and an old brick terminal whose walls are coated thick with the memory of emigration.
    David Greig September 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Local culture is infused with goodbyes, says archivist Seonaid McDonald, who helped curate an exhibit at Lews Castle about emigration from the island.
    Lauren Frayer, NPR, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The exercise, which comes to its 66th iteration, included in-port and underway phases, with the latter featuring live-fire drills—such as a ship-sinking event and a ship-to-shore landing and force withdrawal, demonstrating amphibious capabilities.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • On Sunday, the Indian Meteorological Department said that conditions are favorable for withdrawal of monsoon from parts of Punjab and other states over the next three days.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Local food in Hawai‘i is singular, defined by the natural merging of flavors across the islands’ many diasporas.
    The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • However, Jakarta, Indonesia, with a dynamic diaspora of Asian chefs bringing flavors from China, Thailand, Vietnam and beyond, is poised to become Asia’s next culinary hotspot.
    Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Romeo Beckham’s appearance in a leather flight jacket with matching leather trousers follows his previous modeling turns for Balenciaga (spring summer 2025) and Versace (fall winter 2025).
    Kerry McDermott, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2025
  • An alert air traffic controller in the New York control center reached out to the Spirit flight, telling it to execute an immediate right turn to avoid any possibility of colliding with Air Force One.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Unfortunately, after 19 seasons in the league and being a fan of the game since retirement, Hall of Famer CC Sabathia isn’t surprised to see fans fight over baseballs.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Its longtime publisher, John Morse, was forced into early retirement.
    Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His exit, which was was first reported by The Wall Street Journal earlier this month, was part of a string of high-profile departures at Musk's AI startup.
    MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Running constant checks on gate numbers and departure times.
    Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But the exiting thunderstorms are also bringing some relief to fire crews.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Evacuation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuation. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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