as in avoiding
to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery
people who use every loophole in the law to evade paying taxes
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Recent Examples of evading
To prevent the group from evading the tax, it would be levied on billionaires who lived in California in 2025 and the beginning of 2026.
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Kate Wolffe
october 24, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Ultimately, being aware of the risk that high cholesterol can pose during and after pregnancy, embracing heart-healthy habits throughout, and following up postpartum can make the difference between experiencing a heart event and evading one.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 17 Oct. 2025
The report concluded that mirror cells could become a reality in the next 10 to 30 years and detailed the potentially devasting consequences if mirror bacteria were released into an environment and spread, evading natural biological controls and acting as dangerous pathogens.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
The film follows a Cuban socialite, an English schoolteacher, and an Irish Catholic priest in Miami who spearhead a daring operation to help more than 14,000 children escape communist indoctrination and begin new lives in America — evading Castro’s secret police at every turn.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Prosecutors had charged Ver with evading more than $48 million in taxes due from profits made by selling $240 million in crypto tokens.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
Luck may have had a lot to do with his long success in evading hunters, but luck had certainly been against him at the end.
—Bob Cary, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2025
Finney has been charged with harassment, evading police and illegally possessing a weapon due to a lengthy and violent previous criminal history, according to police.
—Mason Leath, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025
As part of these reforms, the Royal Navy impounded dozens of merchant vessels for allegedly evading customs duties, enraging merchants as well as mariners, shipwrights, stevedores, and others in port cities whose livelihoods depended on foreign commerce.
—Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Kate Wolffe
october 24, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Ultimately, being aware of the risk that high cholesterol can pose during and after pregnancy, embracing heart-healthy habits throughout, and following up postpartum can make the difference between experiencing a heart event and evading one.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 17 Oct. 2025
The report concluded that mirror cells could become a reality in the next 10 to 30 years and detailed the potentially devasting consequences if mirror bacteria were released into an environment and spread, evading natural biological controls and acting as dangerous pathogens.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
The film follows a Cuban socialite, an English schoolteacher, and an Irish Catholic priest in Miami who spearhead a daring operation to help more than 14,000 children escape communist indoctrination and begin new lives in America — evading Castro’s secret police at every turn.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Prosecutors had charged Ver with evading more than $48 million in taxes due from profits made by selling $240 million in crypto tokens.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
Luck may have had a lot to do with his long success in evading hunters, but luck had certainly been against him at the end.
—Bob Cary, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2025
Finney has been charged with harassment, evading police and illegally possessing a weapon due to a lengthy and violent previous criminal history, according to police.
—Mason Leath, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025
As part of these reforms, the Royal Navy impounded dozens of merchant vessels for allegedly evading customs duties, enraging merchants as well as mariners, shipwrights, stevedores, and others in port cities whose livelihoods depended on foreign commerce.
—Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evading
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Currently, pediatricians recommend avoiding caffeine consumption for children under 12 years old.—
Brittany Lubeck,
Verywell Health,
22 Oct. 2025
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However, the chances of this happening were unlikely, given the CRB's priority of avoiding a rebound of inflation rather than stagnation.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Their customers either don't want to leave en masse or have a hard time escaping.—
NPR,
NPR,
21 Oct. 2025
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Revenge softens some of Baron Frankenstein’s colder mannerisms into a more playful performance from Cushing; after escaping the gallows, the Baron hides his true identity and takes work at a hospital for the poor to access a supply of body parts.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Evading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evading. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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