evade detection

idiom

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

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Today, attackers can manipulate some machine learning models by feeding them misleading data to evade detection. Melkon Hovhannisyan, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 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. Kerry Breen, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025 Moreover, Silk Typhoon has demonstrated an advanced ability to evade detection using covert networks. Chris McHenry, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025 The comments would be targeted for specific sites and written just differently enough to evade detection. Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 13 Apr. 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 16 May. 2025.

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