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evasion

[ih-vay-zhuhn] / ɪˈveɪ ʒən /


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The exercise contained malware that deployed "sophisticated obfuscation and evasion techniques," Binance said, including replacing a legitimate development tool component with a malicious version.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

The news comes after years of fighting on behalf of her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were jailed in 2023 for tax evasion and bank fraud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Under pressure to jail the Chicago mobster Al Capone, Mellon had him prosecuted for tax evasion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

ZedPay likely enabled sanctioned entities to swap between traditional currencies and crypto, placing it within a “high-risk sanctions evasion network,” Binance’s investigators wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

There are people who tell me today that they are not religious because they consider religion to be an evasion of life.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Morrison seems to have taken particular inspiration from the omissions and evasions of Faulkner’s fragmentary storytelling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

She added: "Families who have suffered deserve honesty, transparency and a full apology – not evasions and excuses."

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

But his evasions are getting harder to maintain.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025

Digital correspondence is deleted into the ether, sneaky evasions that are beyond the biographer’s grasp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

“The work of Military Intelligence, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Atomic Energy Commission—all, at one time or another have felt the effect of his falsehoods, evasions, and misrepresentations,” Strauss wrote.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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