evade detection

idiom

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

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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 internet is flooded with tutorials from extremists and hobbyists, showing how to modify commercial drones to carry explosives, deliver shocks, or evade detection. Jessica Tisch, New York Daily News, 6 July 2025 Cocaine can be dumped into the water to evade detection from law enforcement or to be picked up by other smugglers, but currents or storms can carry the packages to shore. July 1, CBS News, 1 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 5 Sep. 2025.

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