as in to evade
to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery
the millionaire had been eluding his fair share of taxes for years before getting caught
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Recent Examples of elude
Carrie is looking for home, and that can elude you.
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Daniel D'addario, Variety, 30 May 2025
Consistency has eluded Hendriks, who owns a 6.59 ERA over 14 appearances this season.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 30 May 2025
Several hundred bills pass each spring, most of them eluding the public’s attention except for those with direct interest in the outcome.
—David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
This pattern of inheritance suggests there is a gene that controls orange fur color on the X-chromosome, but identifying precisely which gene this is has eluded scientists for decades.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
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Daniel D'addario, Variety, 30 May 2025
Consistency has eluded Hendriks, who owns a 6.59 ERA over 14 appearances this season.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 30 May 2025
Several hundred bills pass each spring, most of them eluding the public’s attention except for those with direct interest in the outcome.
—David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
This pattern of inheritance suggests there is a gene that controls orange fur color on the X-chromosome, but identifying precisely which gene this is has eluded scientists for decades.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elude
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If your privacy practices have been less than perfect in the past—and whose have not, given the vanishingly tiny odds of evading every form of digital data collection—additional information about you from over the years is likely available from hundreds of data brokers.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
16 June 2025
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Hundreds of Iranian missiles rained down across Israel beginning Saturday night, some of them evading the country's sophisticated defense systems.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
15 June 2025
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The team’s careful planning and early outreach helped avoid problems in the future, like having to replace important music in post-production – something that simply wasn’t an option here.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Yet Trump held his fire, in part because of an effort to avoid an escalation that would trigger Musk to declare all-out war against Republican lawmakers weighing the future of a bill essential to his entire agenda, according to two White House officials.—
Phil Mattingly,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
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The individual then escaped, believed to have escaped outside the back of the house.—
Mandy Taheri
Peter Aitken
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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Heat escapes its atmosphere so quickly that, were one to stand at its equator at noon with skin exposed — not a great idea!—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2025
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“Elude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elude. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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