as in elusive
hard to find, capture, or isolate
believers in Bigfoot have never quite explained how such a large creature can be so evasive
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Recent Examples of evasive
Mizuhara, however, had become increasingly evasive, going dark for weeks at a time.
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David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
Good luck finding them In some instances, however, even the toughest digital privacy law cannot compete with evasive facial recognition companies operating overseas.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
Heavy surveillance backfires—leading to evasive behavior or shadow use.
—Hec Paris Insights, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
At once overstuffed and evasive, Oyeyemi’s fiction is full of texts that shift shape for each reader, proposing that fiction is inherently confounding.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
Good luck finding them In some instances, however, even the toughest digital privacy law cannot compete with evasive facial recognition companies operating overseas.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
Heavy surveillance backfires—leading to evasive behavior or shadow use.
—Hec Paris Insights, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
At once overstuffed and evasive, Oyeyemi’s fiction is full of texts that shift shape for each reader, proposing that fiction is inherently confounding.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evasive
elusive
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Jefferies also acknowledged that incremental growth in the beauty category has always been elusive.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
16 Sep. 2025
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Trump has long sought an elusive deal to wrest TikTok’s US assets from Chinese control, allowing an American investor group to buy it.—
Alayna Treene,
CNN Money,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Evasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evasive. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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