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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of egress.

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Examples

  • Expect it to get dirty as the dueling inside in the GOP primaries has only warmed up whichever candidate egresses from the inquistive backhand shots of the democratic nominee -- likely President Obama.

    Jessica Headley: Presidential Candidates Missing Common Sense Strategies With the Millenials Jessica Headley 2012

  • First, Batman wanted to get rid of the bats in the early spring, by sealing their tiny entrances and egresses, before they had their babies.

    Ann Leary: Where the Wild Things Are 2010

  • I promise to expunge exponential egresses for you to explore and serve you blindly.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Desuko. 2009

  • Predator pilots know the telltale signs of an IED (Improvised Explosive Device), they can read the wadis (dry riverbeds) and other egresses, and they recognize the entrances to the mud-walled compounds and the look of the Afghan “jingle” trucks (the colorfully decorated trucks one sees all over the Indian subcontinent and its environs).

    Hunting the Taliban in Las Vegas 2006

  • Predator pilots know the telltale signs of an IED (Improvised Explosive Device), they can read the wadis (dry riverbeds) and other egresses, and they recognize the entrances to the mud-walled compounds and the look of the Afghan “jingle” trucks (the colorfully decorated trucks one sees all over the Indian subcontinent and its environs).

    Hunting the Taliban in Las Vegas 2006

  • Predator pilots know the telltale signs of an IED (Improvised Explosive Device), they can read the wadis (dry riverbeds) and other egresses, and they recognize the entrances to the mud-walled compounds and the look of the Afghan “jingle” trucks (the colorfully decorated trucks one sees all over the Indian subcontinent and its environs).

    Hunting the Taliban in Las Vegas 2006

  • We did that for a bit, inspecting the wadi egresses where an ambush might be laid and checking ruts in the road ahead that might be IEDs.

    Hunting the Taliban in Las Vegas 2006

  • We did that for a bit, inspecting the wadi egresses where an ambush might be laid and checking ruts in the road ahead that might be IEDs.

    Hunting the Taliban in Las Vegas 2006

  • All lanes of I-10 were supposed to be one-way egresses, but state and local police failed to implement the plan with consistency, and some sections of the interstate remained in two-way mode.

    Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007

  • All lanes of I-10 were supposed to be one-way egresses, but state and local police failed to implement the plan with consistency, and some sections of the interstate remained in two-way mode.

    Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007

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