evade detection
idiom
: to avoid being found out or discovered
His criminal activities somehow evaded detection.
Examples of evade detection in a Sentence
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How did millions of dollars in payments evade detection from the person who oversaw Ohtani’s finances?
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Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Russian soldiers, using heavy cloud cover to evade detection by Ukrainian surveillance drones, managed to break into the northern outskirts of the city in recent days, according to Ukrainian soldiers in the area.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
Hamas has had to dig deeper in recent years, to evade detection and Israeli strikes, analysts say.
—Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
Some spyware tools may be able to evade detection by using stealth techniques or encryption.
—Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2023
Keep in mind, Hanks got his start on the sitcom Bosom Buddies, as a guy who dressed in drag to evade detection while living in a women’s college dorm.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023
His presentation will share details of the newest ways phishing attacks evade detection and of techniques defenders can use to foil these evasions.
—PCMAG, 4 Aug. 2023
What’s more, Nazis and other extremists play a cat-and-mouse game with social media platforms, resorting to codewords, emoji combinations or deliberate typos to evade detection.
—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
In recent years, advocates say migrants have resorted to increasingly risky – and often fatal – paths to evade detection and enter the US amid a flurry of deterrence measures by both state and federal authorities.
—Tara John, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Russian soldiers, using heavy cloud cover to evade detection by Ukrainian surveillance drones, managed to break into the northern outskirts of the city in recent days, according to Ukrainian soldiers in the area.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
Hamas has had to dig deeper in recent years, to evade detection and Israeli strikes, analysts say.
—Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
Some spyware tools may be able to evade detection by using stealth techniques or encryption.
—Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2023
Keep in mind, Hanks got his start on the sitcom Bosom Buddies, as a guy who dressed in drag to evade detection while living in a women’s college dorm.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023
His presentation will share details of the newest ways phishing attacks evade detection and of techniques defenders can use to foil these evasions.
—PCMAG, 4 Aug. 2023
What’s more, Nazis and other extremists play a cat-and-mouse game with social media platforms, resorting to codewords, emoji combinations or deliberate typos to evade detection.
—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
In recent years, advocates say migrants have resorted to increasingly risky – and often fatal – paths to evade detection and enter the US amid a flurry of deterrence measures by both state and federal authorities.
—Tara John, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
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