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Recent Examples of elope
Internet reacts After arriving in Italy, where the couple eloped August 28, Barbee shared the ordeal in a TikTok post that quickly went viral.
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
In 1846, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elope.
—Lit Hub Daily, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
The Game of Thrones actor and Schmidt, who is an award-winning playwright and theater director, met through mutual friends in 2003 and eloped in 2005.
—Caroline Blair, People.com, 11 July 2025
Not one of these children have died and none of them have escaped to elope when using their anchoring dog.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2024
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Austin Abrams stars as a scuba diver who, while searching for his father’s (Josh Brolin) body, gets swallowed and must find a way to escape.—
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Set in 1977, during Brazil’s military dictatorship, the thriller details Armando and his son in their efforts to escape the country in the midst of political turmoil.—
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Dressed as construction workers, the robbers smashed two display cases and absconded with eight pieces of jewelry belonging to Emperor Napoleon and his wife before fleeing on motorbikes.—
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Their legendary match at 'Money in the Bank' in 2011, which saw Punk defeat Cena for the WWE Championship before absconding with the title, is widely regarded as one of the greatest Premium Live Event endings ever.—
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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.—
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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.—
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When Ann and her followers — only a handful at the inception of the settlement, eventually growing into into the hundreds — decamp for Watervliet, everything changes.—
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Ott says that’s why many of his friends and peers—people who could easily decamp to Dubai or Montenegro—are deliberately staying put.—
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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.—
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As of now, one man sits on a small dock off each island, telling onlookers to scram.—
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If someone doesn't have a smoke detector or kitchen vents that are running, a situation can quickly get out of control.—
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Is the fact that Nvidia shares can’t get out of their own way — and that bitcoin has been dead money since two weeks after the 2024 election — a danger side for risk appetites and the broader tape?—
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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.—
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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.—
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“Elope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elope. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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