escape notice
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Amid all the flash and bling, an alabaster weight used to hold down the cloth spreads that covered palace floors during the hot months could easily escape notice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Nor did Gaetz’s lack of qualifications escape notice.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2024
Against the backdrop of a general collapse of the medical system, such a loss can escape notice, but it increasingly is being felt as the war drags on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
Untangling such interference hasn’t been easy given the number of respiratory viruses—coronaviruses, rhinoviruses, adenoviruses, RSV, and influenza are just among the best known—and the many infections that escape notice.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 17, 2022
Even so, it is unlikely that a large cat could survive in sufficient numbers to breed not just in one area but evidently all over New England and escape notice for nine decades.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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