evade
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Acton has not seen her mother since the Arthurs fled Ohio in an effort to evade justice nearly five decades ago.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Deloitte, which is the world's largest accountancy firm, also appears to have advised on a scheme to evade a huge tax bill on the oligarch's wealth, through the falsification of documents.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
He then allegedly tried to evade officials by using multiple identities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
In the past, he said his drones could maneuver to evade Russian air defenses, for instance, by going into a steep dive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
She’d call me minx and try to hem me in with more specific instructions, which I would find new ways to evade.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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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
Co-created and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, “Mexodus” tells the fictional story of Henry, who evades his capture by fleeing Texas across the Rio Grande.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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
“Rats have no thumbs and therefore cannot do many things that we can. They cannot make tools or weapons. They are masters of destruction, but creation evades them,” said Vikus.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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O'Neill handed a first start to 19-year-old Kieran Morrison, and his superb cross led to Isaac Price doubling the lead, before Brown's header evaded goalkeeper Dmytro Riznyk in bizarre circumstances with 30 minutes left.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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
People walking on the boardwalk narrowly evaded getting hit, with one woman jumping over the railing just in time before the car sped by.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Roughly 1,200 agents worked in what they called a “collective,” deliberately evaded detection, created their own message board, and exchanged 70,000 communications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Thoughts evaded me, hiding in the vast stretch of clinical whiteness to which I seemed connected only by a scale of receding grays.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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Lawyers for Abramovich have said that he denies evading tax or concealing his fortune.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Relatively inexpensive to make, they are evading Ukrainian air defenses and striking their targets more quickly than their propeller-powered predecessors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
A report from the UK's Centre for Long Term Resilience, external, published last week, identified hundreds of incidents of AI tools ignoring instructions, evading safeguards and deceiving humans, including AI agents deleting files without consent.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The man was arrested on suspicion of felony evading, according to the LAPD.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
“I am happy Reb Saunders knows now about his son’s reading,” he said quietly, evading my question.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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