Exit
Exit verb - To leave a place often for another.
Usage example: in case of fire, exit from the building in a calm and orderly fashion
Remain
Remain verb - To continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time.
Usage example: one of the three bridges known as “the London Bridge,” it was moved in the late 1960s to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it remains today
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The circumstances surrounding Cheryl's dubious exit from the US version of The X Factor still remain murky to this day.
Source: Music / Girls Aloud - In The Sims 2, if you save and exit a household while a Sim is pregnant, she will remain at the stage of pregnancy she was at when you did so.
Source: Longest Pregnancy Ever - If you exit and re-enter the room afterwards, his bones remain.
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Remain and Exit. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/exit/remain
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Remain or Exit. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/exit/remain.
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