as in elusive
hard to find, capture, or isolate
believers in Bigfoot have never quite explained how such a large creature can be so evasive
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Recent Examples of evasive
Meanwhile, my attempts to live in the moment, even those abetted by meditation, have felt squishy, uncertain, and evasive.
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Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
Once deployed, the system rapidly determines where to search, how to configure its sensors, and how to respond when a submarine attempts evasive maneuvers such as zigzagging, going silent, or deploying decoys, the South China Morning Post reports.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
Trumpian doublespeak is always evasive, even when accurate.
—Chris Brennan, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
All of this resulted in Car 63 having to brake heavily and take evasive action.
—Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
Once deployed, the system rapidly determines where to search, how to configure its sensors, and how to respond when a submarine attempts evasive maneuvers such as zigzagging, going silent, or deploying decoys, the South China Morning Post reports.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
Trumpian doublespeak is always evasive, even when accurate.
—Chris Brennan, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
All of this resulted in Car 63 having to brake heavily and take evasive action.
—Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evasive
elusive
Adjective
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Type 1 diabetes wears many faces—an elusive autoimmune disease, a metabolic mess, a chronic condition that requires lifelong treatment.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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Despite double- and sometimes triple-digit year-on-year growth, and repeat customers accounting for 37 percent of the business every month, the break even point remained elusive.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Evasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evasive. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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