evade
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Distance, not just walls, makes it easier to evade responsibility — and to discourage questions.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
This year, the Justice Department has been investigating Iran’s use of Binance to evade U.S. sanctions since the guilty plea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The two US troops ejected from the damaged plane, were separated, and had to evade Iranian forces while they awaited rescue from US special forces.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The suspect, identified by CHP as Luis Gutierrez, was charged with stealing a vehicle and attempting to evade the police.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Helene has followed me out of the mess hall, but the fog helps me evade her.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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Chip falls in with a troupe of street performers, evades the police, juggles along the Seine and eventually wanders into a smoky bar, where Penelope is strumming her guitar.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
In lab studies, the Cicada subvariant efficiently evades immunity from a prior vaccination or infection, according to a report published by the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
“It seems sometimes progress evades us,” Walker says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
This "dark matter" is a mysterious entity that evades all forms of direct observation yet makes its presence felt through its invisible pull on visible objects.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
“Rats have no thumbs and therefore cannot do many things that we can. They cannot make tools or weapons. They are masters of destruction, but creation evades them,” said Vikus.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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It has also prompted public outrage as to how a fugitive father, who had three children with him, could have evaded authorities for so long.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Mythos, developed by Anthropic, was said by the firm to be able to find weaknesses in systems in seconds which have long evaded human hackers.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
He’d evaded immigration agents at least three times before he was detained in late June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Older residents and long-serving zoo staff remember another capybara that evaded capture for more than two months along the same stretch of river.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The descendants of maroons who evaded the British still live in Jamaica to this day.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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Anthropic in February said Chinese companies used “fraudulent accounts and proxy services to access Claude at scale while evading detection.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
After evading West Midlands Police for more than two years, he was flown into Gatwick Airport last month and was then transported to a custody block in the West Midlands.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
First, Jefferson ran from one sideline to the other in the backfield, evading would-be defenders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Almásy shelters Katharine in a cave and goes off to get help, eventually evading arrest and stealing an airplane to rescue her.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
But the way she was evading the question told him it should.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
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