undetected

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A "dark" vessel -- usually a tanker or cargo carrier -- deliberately disables or manipulates transponders in a bid to go undetected by public tracking systems like Kpler's MarineTraffic.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Naturalist Stephen Boyes believes massive elephants live undetected on a remote plateau in Angola; they’d be descendants of a giant pachyderm hunted and killed 70 years ago that now resides in the Smithsonian.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

With those documents, Iranian assets probably still move around the region undetected.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

These areas may have undetected cases and could benefit from expanded screening efforts.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2026

If undetected, it can lie dormant in the human body for years before erupting in a positive fiesta of maladies.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson