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[dih-kamp] / dɪˈkæmp /


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After most OpenAI employees threatened to decamp to Microsoft, the directors reversed course.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Then, of course, there is the added perk of the private beach, a rare draw in an area where Manhattanites regularly decamp during the warmer summer months.

From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026

Barron’s Karishma Vanjani writes that overseas investors’ desire to decamp from Treasuries is already a concern.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

Yet others question whether anything like a Mamdani mayoralty would really provoke millionaires and billionaires to decamp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025

Gates was now in his senior year, and somehow he managed to convince his teachers to let him decamp for Bonneville under the guise of an independent study project.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Trump has referred to the 504-acre property that he purchased in 2002 as his Summer White House, and he frequently decamps there for the weekends when it is too hot in Palm Beach, Fla.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Exhibit A: the band decamps to New Orleans to record their next record.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026

At least until he decamps to New York in 2026, Dudamel’s performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic remain quintessential summer Hollywood Bowl enticements.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023

The London displays wrap up on Tuesday, when the fashion crowd decamps to Milan Fashion Week for more new season runway shows.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2023

A 'cockatoo' is a selector who works his piece of land out in two or three years, and having done nothing to improve it, decamps to select in a new district.

From Town Life in Australia by Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny

So she and her family decamped to a ranch in Montana, where they lived in a log cabin and rode horses while riding out the global pandemic.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Francis Ford Coppola decamped there to write his script for “The Godfather,” and it’s where his compatriot George Lucas conjured up the “Star Wars” universe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The Big 12, meanwhile, hasn’t won a national title since Texas in 2005—and the Longhorns have since decamped to the SEC.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Six years after Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, quit royal duties and decamped to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

El Patron decamped not long afterward with his bodyguards.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

If the music world is decamping from London again this week, then it needs to "give back to the community", she adds, and not just pay it "lip service".

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

Harry, who spent the past few years throwing dirt at the royal family after decamping to California, has been trying to mend fences with his father, King Charles, who is in treatment for cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

Immigration and births aren’t keeping up with the Golden Staters decamping for Texas and other states that boast a better cost of living.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025

For generations, Mexican immigrants have landed in this area before decamping to Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

At length Watson, decamping, made a forced march down the Georgetown road; but paused at Ox swamp, six miles below the lower bridge.

From A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade by William Dobein James


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