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
All of this resulted in Car 63 having to brake heavily and take evasive action.
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Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Mizuhara, however, had become increasingly evasive, going dark for weeks at a time.
—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
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Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Mizuhara, however, had become increasingly evasive, going dark for weeks at a time.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evasive
elusive
Adjective
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So far, a federal budget deal has been elusive, and the government is barreling toward a likely shutdown.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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Researchers discovered a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan 140 years ago, ending decades of searches for the elusive ghost ship.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Evasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evasive. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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