evasion
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The train operating company estimates fare evasion costs the state-owned railway more than £11m each year.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Nathan Hochman announced the 58-year-old comedian’s arrest during a news conference Thursday afternoon and said Mencia faces 12 criminal tax evasion counts over his failure to submit his state tax returns from 2019 to 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
At the next station, two officers entered the carriage and detained him for draft evasion.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Michael Cohen, the president's former lawyer who spent time behind bars for lying to investigators, tax evasion and campaign finance violations, told US media he also plans to request money from the justice department initiative.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
A plan that isn't motivated by the need for flight and evasion.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
She added: "Families who have suffered deserve honesty, transparency and a full apology – not evasions and excuses."
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
The investigating police officer, Siri Bengtsson, is new to the force and a shrewd interpreter of the silences and evasions she encounters when questioning Skavböke’s wary inhabitants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
But his evasions are getting harder to maintain.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025
Digital correspondence is deleted into the ether, sneaky evasions that are beyond the biographer’s grasp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
“The work of Military Intelligence, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Atomic Energy Commission—all, at one time or another have felt the effect of his falsehoods, evasions, and misrepresentations,” Strauss wrote.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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