evade detection
idiom
: to avoid being found out or discovered
His criminal activities somehow evaded detection.
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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.
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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
How malicious Chrome extensions evade detection and spread As the investigation progressed, researchers traced suspicious traffic back to a seemingly harmless color picker extension.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
The challenge consists of several scenarios, like a mission to pursue and intercept a satellite and a mission to evade detection.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 7 July 2025
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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
How malicious Chrome extensions evade detection and spread As the investigation progressed, researchers traced suspicious traffic back to a seemingly harmless color picker extension.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
The challenge consists of several scenarios, like a mission to pursue and intercept a satellite and a mission to evade detection.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 7 July 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 18 Sep. 2025.
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