escape hatch
noun
1
: a hatch providing an emergency exit from an enclosed space
2
: a means of evading a difficulty, dilemma, or responsibility
Examples of escape hatch in a Sentence
the escape hatch of a submarine
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In contrast, bitcoin offers an escape hatch—a way to retain financial sovereignty even when everything else is lost.
Americans, for the most part, have never had to think this way.
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Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Theater becomes a means of liberation, an escape hatch through which they can be released from the rigid expectations for how men are supposed to behave — rules that prison hardens into a matter of survival.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 July 2024
Platform engineering has provided a useful escape hatch at just the right time.
—Justin Warren, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Clemson and Florida State have not found an escape hatch without paying an exit fee north of $150 million and risking hundreds of millions of dollars in future TV revenue.
—Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
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Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Theater becomes a means of liberation, an escape hatch through which they can be released from the rigid expectations for how men are supposed to behave — rules that prison hardens into a matter of survival.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 July 2024
Platform engineering has provided a useful escape hatch at just the right time.
—Justin Warren, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Clemson and Florida State have not found an escape hatch without paying an exit fee north of $150 million and risking hundreds of millions of dollars in future TV revenue.
—Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for escape hatch
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“Escape hatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/escape%20hatch. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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