evade
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A new White House report says more than 40 countries enable Chinese exporters to evade U.S. tariffs through illegal transshipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The captain said the drone appeared to be "small" because it managed to evade detection by "our air defence systems, and the port authority's own surveillance cameras didn't catch anything."
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Past findings produced by Wada suggest micro-dosing could evade detection methods, and so the scope to cheat in professional sport remains, meaning all efforts must be taken to ensure nobody beats the system.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Ronald Fischer will now return to Rhode Island to face the consequences he sought to evade for more than 20 years.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
And to evade nostalgia for the life he has lost, he concentrates on the benefits education will bestow upon him.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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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
But how does one set out to write a biography about the creation of an author who not only can’t be reached, but actively evades the spotlight?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 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
When we try measuring one way, our substance evades it and seems to prefer another, but when we try a different way, we have no more success.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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He’d evaded immigration agents at least three times before he was detained in late June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
The driver successfully and momentarily evaded officers, who found his abandoned motorcycle, valued at $5,000, in a nearby alley, according to Buttitta.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Even the perennial budget champion, however, hasn't evaded a "wave of price hikes", Yoshihiro Noro, former head of the Japan Natto Cooperative Society Federation, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Nineteenth-century wildcat notes circulated in an era when collateral requirements, where they existed at all, were routinely evaded and unenforceable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
I assumed she was there to talk to me about him and I evaded her, brushing her away with a neutral smile.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Incidents of such loss of control continue to be catnip for AI ethicists, who contend that companies are evading moral responsibilities and accountability by describing it as their AI making its own choices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
It can also be deeply damaging when it becomes a means of evading the truth.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Kent Police said after initially evading arrest, the suspect had run toward Tivoli Road in Margate.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Treasury, said he fears that because regimes are successfully evading sanctions, people will increasingly view them as impotent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
In evading and warding off wage increases, employers are of course behaving in an economically rational fashion; their business isn’t to make their employees more comfortable and secure but to maximize the bottom line.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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