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exodus
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    As a rule, a recess meant a general exodus, but today people weren't moving.  (source)
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    We had to await the exodus of the fifty-six blocks that preceded us.  (source)
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    Soon half the class was gone, and the exodus continued.  (source)
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    Her grandfather droned on and on about the plagues and the exodus from Egypt.  (source)
    exodus = departure by a lot of people
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    It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades.†  (source)
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    "The mass exodus of the children of Abnegation leaders cannot be ignored or attributed to coincidence," he reads.  (source)
    exodus = departure (by a lot of people)
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    As people made their exoduses out of the city on foot, these spaces must have served as makeshift sanctuaries.†  (source)
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    They darted along the storefronts—most left wide open during the mass exodus—and turned into the first skinny alley between shops.  (source)
    exodus = departure by a lot of people
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    About noon the exodus from camp began.  (source)
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    Since my father and Hershel were the most likely ones to be taken, they decided to join the exodus and head back to Narewka.  (source)
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    I couldn't have these insane gods killing loads of innocent people just because I was in their midst; and if we tried to join the exodus, we'd only get stuck or crushed in a stampede.  (source)
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    With the camp population drastically diminished by the exodus, Louie had no crowds to hide in.  (source)
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    Natalie turned and joined the exodus moving north.  (source)
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    The first night I read through Genesis, the second night I read through Exodus.  (source)
    Exodus = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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    The stories about the Exodus hadn't been formalized into scripture yet.  (source)
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    Book Five EXODUS ...And ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.  (source)
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    Haiti's story, the religious say, is pulled straight from the Book of Exodus.  (source)
    Exodus = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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    That The Idaho should show The Ten Commandments so close to Easter was another example of what my grandmother called the poor "seasonal" taste of nearly everyone in the entertainment business: that we should see the Exodus of the Chosen People on the eve of our Lord's Passion and Resurrection was outrageous—"ALL THAT OLD-TESTAMENT HARSHNESS WHEN WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT JESUS!" as Owen put it.  (source)
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    I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job and Jonah.  (source)
    Exodus = book of the Bible
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    That was our hoping time, our little Exodus.  (source)
    Exodus = departure (but also referencing the story of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt as told in the book of Exodus from the Christian and Hebrew bibles)
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    In Exodus Twenty, Verse Thirteen, we have one of the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not kill.  (source)
    Exodus = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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    She remembered the appropriate passage from the Book of Exodus.  (source)
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    The Moses above them had horns for the same reason thousands of Christian images of Moses had horns—a mistranslation of the book of Exodus.  (source)
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    CHAPTER 37 — Exodus.  (source)
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    (Beginning to chant) Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, First Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, Second Kings— DRUMMOND Your Honor, this completes the testimony.  (source)
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    It was the Exodus album.  (source)
    Exodus = name of an album
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