What does escape from mean?
Definitions for escape from
es·cape from
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Princeton's WordNet
shake, shake off, throw off, escape fromverb
get rid of
"I couldn't shake the car that was following me"
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escape from
Escape from refers to the act of successfully getting away or breaking free from a confinement, danger, undesirable situation or place. It usually involves liberating oneself from restriction or control, finding a way out, or eluding capture or harm. This can be contextually related to various scenarios such as escape from prison, escape from reality, or escape from a dangerous threat.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of escape from in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of escape from in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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In the Michael Jordan-Tiger Woods era, we got used to athletes and coaches toeing the company line, playing it safe at every turn, but the election of Donald Trump has changed that, and Gregg Popovich is the leading example so far in the sports world. Athletes and coaches are finding their voice in a way that is reminiscent of the '60s. This makes sense because sports are no longer an escape from the real world but much more a mirror of our society. Because Trump is so controversial, it makes sense to me that people from all walks of life, including sports, are speaking out.
Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis:
The country is in a position like that of Sisyphus — a man condemned to roll a boulder to the top of a hill, only to see it roll down again, we risk condemning an entire generation to a future without hope. To avoid that, what we ask from our eurozone partners is to treat Greece as an equal and help us escape from this Sisyphean trap.
Some would be surprised that art existed in a place like that, in a place with crematories, but art was especially needed here behind the barbed wire, because the art could save a part of their human dignity, the art was a hope for a better future. The art was escape from the brutal reality of the camp to another, better world.
It's impossible to escape from that prison without total complicity from the authorities and/or guards.
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
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