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When LePage left office in 2019, prevented from seeking a third consecutive term by the Maine Constitution, he declared he was decamping for Florida, where the taxes were lower, and leaving politics behind.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022

Tristan Biles, a technology worker who had been working remotely since Halloween from a condo on the edge of a ski slope, was decamping to San Diego to meet his girlfriend.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021

As he fielded queries after the reading, he mentioned that he was decamping to teach at something called the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in, of all places, Boulder, Colo.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2016

Yesterday we learned that New York Times economics correspondent Peter Goodman was decamping for HuffPo.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2011

Under the impression that I was decamping with its master's belongings, it started to bark, and all but got me by the trousers.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John