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escapologist

British  
/ ˌɛskəˈpɒlədʒɪst /

noun

  1. Also called: escape artist. an entertainer who specializes in freeing himself or herself from confinement

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Dave Goulding is a magic historian, escapologist, and Aberdeen Magical Society's vice-president.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

Yet her portrait of this womanizing, "self-destroyed escapologist" is softened by her high regard for his lush language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2016

There were other calamities, too, from which Bowie, ever the escapologist, managed to flee unscathed, and even with his reputation—or his catalogue of hits—enhanced.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2016

Houdini turned to debunking mediums in his middle age as his career as an escapologist went into decline.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2014

In 1939, as Chabon tells it, the golem's enormous coffin provides the means for young Jewish artist and escapologist Josef Kavalier to escape German-annexed Prague for the States.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2010

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