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evasion

[ih-vey-zhuhn] / ɪˈveɪ ʒən /


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But his promotion was accelerated when Charlie was sent to prison in Alabama in 2005 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and making illegal campaign contributions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

The newspaper reports, external that officers have spent more than a year looking into potential offences relating to "the evasion of restrictions on donations."

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Western officials are struggling to keep up as crypto becomes more popular for sanctions evasion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

Davis was charged with six counts of tax evasion.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

To deny its powerful, subsisting reality would be to endorse a simplistic and ultimately unhelpful evasion.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

All that’s left are defensive denials, evasions of Nazi collaboration and the faint hope that something higher has survived.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

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

From BBC Jan. 25, 2026

His early evasions on emancipation, then, were less weakness than strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 24, 2025

But his evasions are getting harder to maintain.

From Salon Oct. 12, 2025

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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