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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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    With the camp population drastically diminished by the exodus, Louie had no crowds to hide in.  (source)
    exodus = departure by a lot of people
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    Just to be thorough, she peeks in to make sure there are no stragglers, or kids trying to avoid the mass exodus.  (source)
    exodus = departure by a large group
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    A business-suited exodus emptied the train when we hit 110th Street, the last outpost of affluent Manhattan, and we were finally able to sit down.  (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)
    Exoduses = departures by groups of people
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    As a rule, a recess meant a general exodus, but today people weren't moving.  (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)
    exoduses = departures by groups of people
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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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    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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    After the war there was a minor exodus of peculiars to America.  (source)
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    They face north, toward a new land, a neverending exodus.  (source)
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    A police exodus.  (source)
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    Exodus (title of a section of the book)  (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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    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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    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)
    EXODUS = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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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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    Sethe is an escaped slave, and her children were all born in slave-owning Kentucky; their escape to Ohio is like the Israelites' escape from Egypt in Exodus.  (source)
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    Washington remained at Cambridge where he attended Sunday services conducted by the chaplain of Knox's artillery regiment, the Reverend Abiel Leonard of Connecticut, who chose for his text Exodus 14:25: "And they took off their chariot wheels, that they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians."  (source)
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    It was the Exodus album.  (source)
    Exodus = name of an album
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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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    Haiti's story, the religious say, is pulled straight from the Book of Exodus.  (source)
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    CHAPTER 37 — Exodus.  (source)
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    She remembered the appropriate passage from the Book of 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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