as in hideout
a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others the novelist has a little hideaway in the country where he goes whenever he wants to do some serious writing

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Recent Examples of hideaway Last night's episode also saw the hideaway open for the first time. Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025 The 4,600-square-foot hideaways, tucked behind high stone walls lined with frangipani trees, boast vaulted ceilings and vibrant outsize canvases handpainted with scenes of Bali’s wild nature. Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025 The lush hideaway once owned by the Oscar-winning actress and her longtime cinematographer husband Danny Moder just hit the market on Kauai’s North Shore for $30 million. Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 22 May 2025 Now the 27-year-old Florida native is shifting gears on the real estate front, hoisting her hideaway in the rural Los Angeles area of Topanga Canyon in the foothills above Malibu on the market for nearly $4 million. Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for hideaway
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Noun
  • To fight an elusive enemy operating clandestinely at night and from hideouts deep in swamps and jungles, the U.S. military turned to environmental modification technologies.
    Pamela McElwee, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2025
  • While Pakistani security forces frequently target TTP hideouts in the restive northwest and elsewhere, such operations in Kashmir are rare.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025
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  • For those who haven't seen it, Kiss play themselves facing down an evil inventor who keeps his secret lair in an amusement park.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 7 June 2025
  • Julie then said something about the mastermind's lair exploding, and, before commercial break, the show naturally flashed a fake shot of a lair exploding out in the wilderness.
    David Wysong, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025

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“Hideaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hideaway. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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