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Recent Examples of scram
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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Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
As of now, one man sits on a small dock off each island, telling onlookers to scram.
—Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
When Fleck makes a young boy on the bus laugh with his goofy faces, he’s immediately met with a threat from the boy’s mother to cut it out and scram.
—David Betancourt, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
In three seasons with the Pacers (before Donnie Walsh ditched him after Indiana brought back Larry Bird) and two more with the Knicks (before Walsh, again, told him to scram), Thomas has a 187-223 record (.456).
—Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2018
Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
As of now, one man sits on a small dock off each island, telling onlookers to scram.
—Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
When Fleck makes a young boy on the bus laugh with his goofy faces, he’s immediately met with a threat from the boy’s mother to cut it out and scram.
—David Betancourt, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
In three seasons with the Pacers (before Donnie Walsh ditched him after Indiana brought back Larry Bird) and two more with the Knicks (before Walsh, again, told him to scram), Thomas has a 187-223 record (.456).
—Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scram
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The foxes are a legacy of the 2006 war between Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and Israel, when the animals moved down to the coast to escape fighting in the hills.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
22 Jan. 2025
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Whatever happens, Iris can’t escape her programming, which obliges her to always be truthful, but doesn’t abide by Asimov’s second rule of robotics, which dictates that such a machine must not harm a human.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2025
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Sitting in front of him was the angry sentry known as Devlin’s Billabong, named when Bruce Devlin needed six shots to get out of the pond in the final round of the 1975 Andy Williams Open.—
Bryce Miller,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Jan. 2025
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That's a large sum of money that someone could use to get out the country.—
Anne-Marie Green,
CBS News,
25 Jan. 2025
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Yes, Albrecht Escher absconded with Lasher and left Sip holding the bag, with nothing but a passive-aggressive voice note on a bottle of brown liquor by way of good-bye.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
26 Jan. 2025
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The perpetrator encourages the victim to transfer large amounts of money towards investments like cryptocurrency; once the scam is done, the scam artist absconds with the money.—
Chloe Berger,
Fortune Asia,
20 Jan. 2025
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Countless sports teams from the Premier League to the NFL have decamped from their spiritual homes to brand-new stadiums.—
Phil Hay,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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The city lost most of the London squad that decamped here last year, including Martine Rose and David Koma, but will welcome British newcomers Qasimi and Saul Nash.—
Martino Carrera,
WWD,
6 Jan. 2025
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Ripa and Consuelos soon began dating and eloped to Las Vegas in 1996.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
19 Jan. 2025
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The couple were high school sweethearts and went on to elope in 1989 at the height of Bon Jovi's fame.—
Lori A Bashian Fox News,
Fox News,
27 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Peter Rodriguez, 45, made off with $1,616 in cash from the Santander Bank branch on Prospect Park West near Windsor Place, in Windsor Terrace, around 9:55 a.m., said police.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
23 Jan. 2025
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Several times, the ring made off with multiple cars at once.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
22 Jan. 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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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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“Scram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scram. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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