elude
verb (used with object)
to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade.
are eluding
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present progressiveof elude.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The companies that provide the administrative services for offshore companies say they abide by financial regulations and refuse to provide services for people who are eluding the law.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
Men too often, just as they are about clutching these benefits, find, Tantalus-like, that they are eluding their grasp.
From How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by William Garden Blaikie
