evade detection

idiom

: to avoid being found out or discovered
His criminal activities somehow evaded detection.

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These alleged practices are designed to help the companies evade detection and accountability. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 Sep. 2025 Recognizing that nefarious actors using deepfakes will continually look for workarounds to evade detection, the security community is in for an ongoing battle to make sure detection methods keep pace with the evolving range of deepfake methods. Chris Dimitriadis, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 The study also claims that the ASW system could reduce a submarine’s chance of escape to just 5 percent, meaning only one in 20 would likely evade detection and attack. Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025 Shin Bet, long aware of Hamas' tactic of using Israeli SIM cards to evade detection, understood the potential threat and passed on the information to the IDF Southern Command. Yaakov Katz, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for evade detection

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“Evade detection.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evade%20detection. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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