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
Heavy surveillance backfires—leading to evasive behavior or shadow use.
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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
ErastoCruz, driving an SUV, made an evasive maneuver to try to avoid the man, but veered off the roadway and slammed into the rear of the Civic.
—Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 15 Aug. 2025
The growing militarization of space means satellite operators need enough fuel to perform evasive maneuvers.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
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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
ErastoCruz, driving an SUV, made an evasive maneuver to try to avoid the man, but veered off the roadway and slammed into the rear of the Civic.
—Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 15 Aug. 2025
The growing militarization of space means satellite operators need enough fuel to perform evasive maneuvers.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evasive
elusive
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One of the field cameras had captured the image of an endangered ocelot, the first record of the elusive feline in the region in over 50 years.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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While homeownership remains elusive for many, regardless of age, Gen Z now accounts for one in four loans issued to first-time home buyers, according to data from financial services company Intercontinental Exchange.—
Sara Chernikoff,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Evasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evasive. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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