elope
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Mary Kay excelled in high school but eloped at age 16 with her first husband, Julius Ben Rogers, and gave birth to two children in rapid succession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
While at Duke, Driesell eloped with Joyce and got married in December 1952.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
Her parents tried to make her a ward of court, but the couple eloped to Brighton and later married.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
They were engaged a year later and eloped in Las Vegas in 2019.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2023
They’d eloped on the Northern Pacific to Seattle—she remembered eating breakfast in the dining car—where he worked for two years in a Harbor Island foundry and for one loading lumber on the waterfront.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
