evade
verb (used with object)
to escape from by trickery or cleverness.
have evaded
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present perfectof evade.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Kelce's sister-in-law and Queer Eye star Antoni Porowski, a friend to the couple, have evaded questions, too.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Iran, China and an array of middlemen have evaded U.S. sanctions for years by shipping oil on aging tankers with opaque records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Police believed Freeman may have evaded capture with the help of locals sympathetic to his anti-authority views.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
By training his attention on every turn of the screw, Dean was promptly discovering errors that might otherwise have evaded the Spirit inspection process.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
He’d been able to avoid Sheriff Dean all these months, and even though he seemed to have evaded his past, he didn’t want a face-to-face encounter now.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
