as in to depart
to leave a place often for another
it's getting late, so we had better vamoose
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Recent Examples of vamoose
The bad news: Dove can’t convince Running Cub to vamoose because — well, a woman’s got to do what a woman’s got to do as well.
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Joe Leydon, Variety, 13 June 2025
Khan’s group packed fast and vamoosed on a small airplane, which rose straight into a thrashing thunderstorm.
—David Quammen, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
Nearby, a woman was making her own bathroom right next to the entrance of a residential building, vamoosing only when the doorman, Clever Santos Chavez, chased her away.
—Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2020
In November, the owner of the building housing Trump’s SoHo hotel in Manhattan paid the Trump Organization to vamoose.
—Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Jan. 2018
The Senate left town for its August recess Thursday, a week after the House vamoosed, and let’s hope the Members get an earful from constituents at home.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
Joe Leydon, Variety, 13 June 2025
Khan’s group packed fast and vamoosed on a small airplane, which rose straight into a thrashing thunderstorm.
—David Quammen, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
Nearby, a woman was making her own bathroom right next to the entrance of a residential building, vamoosing only when the doorman, Clever Santos Chavez, chased her away.
—Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2020
In November, the owner of the building housing Trump’s SoHo hotel in Manhattan paid the Trump Organization to vamoose.
—Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Jan. 2018
The Senate left town for its August recess Thursday, a week after the House vamoosed, and let’s hope the Members get an earful from constituents at home.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vamoose
Verb
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The criminal complaint alleges that she was captured on surveillance footage carrying a black backpack entering the locker room area, appearing to take a photo of the vicinity, and departing without the backpack.—
Mike Brest,
The Washington Examiner,
1 July 2025
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Over time, many of the drivers of their upside, from George Springer to Carlos Correa to Gerrit Cole to Justin Verlander to Tucker and Bregman, departed.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
Verb
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These hiking physical human augmentation wearables are exiting the Trough of Disillusionment, led by three factors that work in their favor: low price, influencer content, and public demonstrations.—
Borislav "Bobby" Marinov,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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People must exit the terminal by 10 p.m., unless meeting a late-arriving plane.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
30 June 2025
Verb
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Wales have done well under Wilkinson to move away from a hardened reputation as being Fishlock’s team and become more of a sum of their parts.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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Employees are held to high speed standards, with some scanning up to 1,200 items an hour to keep lines moving.—
Meghan Overdeep,
Southern Living,
26 June 2025
Verb
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The transponders onboard Relay 2 stopped responding to radio signals in June 1967, after which point the satellite went silent—until last June.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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As the story goes, Jackson Pollock stepped onto a canvas in 1947, drizzled some paint here and there, and God reached a bony finger down from the heavens and pressed it upon the scale of art history, tilting it from Europe to the United States.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
24 June 2025
Verb
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Daniels gets his guy Aiyuk, who's the younger, and potentially better receiver.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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As New York closed in on Tuesday's vote, more investors got nervous as the polls showed Mamdani was leading.—
Jason Gewirtz,
CNBC,
26 June 2025
Verb
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Simmons is then accused of carjacking a vehicle from someone who was at the medical facility and fleeing the scene.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
1 July 2025
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When a harrowing incident forces Wash to flee, he is thrust into a globe-spanning adventure that challenges and reshapes his understanding of family, freedom, and love.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
30 June 2025
Verb
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Rescue teams are evacuating the body of a hiker who fell into an active volcano three days ago and has died, Indonesia park officials and the victim's family reported Tuesday, June 24.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
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Fordow was reportedly evacuated before the U.S. strike, and key centrifuge and uranium stockpiles are now unaccounted for and instead of neutralizing Iran's nuclear capabilities, the war may have pushed Tehran closer to covert weaponization under a hardened doctrine, Toossi said.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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“Vamoose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vamoose. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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