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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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Creating Designated Quiet Zones Allocating specific areas as quiet zones helps employees escape overstimulation and focus on their tasks in peace.Shaun Arora, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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After initially escaping, Patil was arrested on Thursday, TOI reported.Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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There are generally two types of fighters in these brawls: the kind who get in — and push harder — when they’re hit in the face, and those who get out.Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2025
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But is that too simplistic a way to think about why dryness leads to fires that can get out of control?Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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Upon arrival at the incident location, an agent driving a Border Patrol vehicle collided with an individual who then absconded into Mexico.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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The first Cassidy pinfall fans fell for was when Cassidy absconded the briefcase and struck Jon Moxley.Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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Darkside decamped to a studio in the south of France, and recorded the remainder of the album in studios in Los Angeles and Paris.Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2025
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The trio decamped to Mulaney’s dressing room, which was a cozy jumble of books, shopping bags, and framed pictures of his two young children.Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Wildenstein married her art dealer husband in 1978 after eloping to Las Vegas.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
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That's So Raven script, says costar Anneliese van der Pol Van der Pol and Wilson, who ironically played his wife's onscreen ex-husband on the Raven spinoff, eloped at the courthouse nearly a year after their engagement.Jessica Wang, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Watson, then 16, and a friend forced their way into a Plantation home armed with a gun, fought with one of the residents and made off with a video camera and cellphone worth $575.Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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Two people made off with $1,200 in roasts, steaks and ribs from a Safeway supermarket in Cupertino, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said in a Jan. 5 news release.Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 6 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 21 Jan. 2025.
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