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.
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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
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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
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“Evade detection.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evade%20detection. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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