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[ih-vayd] / ɪˈveɪd /


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Mullin said that Bergal had an extensive criminal history and was trying to evade arrest.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The following day, lawyers for She’s Alive asked the court to deny this motion, arguing that Seaver “attempted to evade service of process” and that the “court should not reward that behavior.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

That makes reconstructing the detector and designing carefully tailored adversarial changes that can evade it considerably more difficult.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Saudi Arabia has sought for years to buy the world's most advanced warplane, equipped with stealth technology that allows it to evade enemy detection.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

He punched the lumpy pillow and flipped to his other side, but sleep continued to evade him.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

She evades that reality in “107 Days,” in which she dismisses antiwar protesters at her rallies as mere “hecklers.”

From Salon ● May 5, 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

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

Gehlen, who was sponsored by the Americans, volunteered a trove of intelligence on the Soviet Union amassed under the Nazis and went on to recruit members of the SS and the Gestapo who evaded denazification.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Steve Yoo, one of the country's biggest pop stars in the 1990s and early 2000s, was embroiled in a national scandal after he was found to have evaded military service in 2002.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

Mladic was dismissed from his post after being indicted in 1995, but he evaded capture for another 16 years.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Sure, like Ross Wilcox would’ve evaded capture and headed a resistance cell.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Navy and Gulf oil producers have recently improved at fending off or evading Iranian attacks, allowing more tankers to cross the strait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Relatively inexpensive to make, they are evading Ukrainian air defenses and hunting down their targets more quickly than their propeller-powered predecessors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

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

The tube remained in Phil Resch’s possession; Resch circled back within the cramped elevator, evading him, his attention on Luba Luft only.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick




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