evade detection

phrase

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

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Chameleon carriers, as their name suggests, are commercial trucking operations that skirt federal regulations and escape bad safety records by changing company names to evade detection. Ashley Velie, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026 Over the course of six inconceivably traumatic days, Caldwell and three friends were forcibly marched and starved, shoved under boulders to evade detection, and made to watch their kidnappers execute members of the rival Kyrgyz Army at point-blank range. Namir Khaliq, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026 The exercise included multi-wave saturation attacks on enemy vessels attempting to evade detection by using nearby islands and reefs as cover. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026 PolkaDot chocolates and other products can slip into local gas stations and evade detection. David Kroll, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2026 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 31 Jul. 2026.

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