Most people head for the movie theaters to escape reality for a few hours.

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And there ends, for another year, the brief escape from reality, the hijras' day in the sun.

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But not all gamers are happy to see the ads in a space widely thought to be an escape from reality.

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It is an escape from reality.

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The new government will have to make changes "in order for the Greek people to escape the torturous reality of unemployment and unbelievable difficulties that every Greek family faces today, " Samaras said after meeting with the president.

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Escape Routes was a Saturday-night reality series that aired on NBC last spring, showing a competition among teams of Millennials who used the new Escape to get around.

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The recession has turned hours of commuting to and from work into a reality that's hard to escape.

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It belongs to an alternate reality that we can visit to escape the built-in assumptions of our everyday environment.

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Reporting the story requires analysis that's smart and fast enough to get out ahead of reality just far enough to let people change or escape it.

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