escapologist
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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
Along the way, he forged a reputation as a master escapologist that merely added to the aura of mystique and near invincibility surrounding a man who came to be know as “Ice Borg”.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2015
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
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