EVADING Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

evading

verb

present participle of evade

as in avoiding

to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery people who use every loophole in the law to evade paying taxes

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Recent Examples of evading The new Marvel series will see the hero grapple with his identity and humanity while evading a bounty hunter and reuniting with his son. — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026 The suspects were booked into the Fort Worth City Jail and face charges of burglary of a building, evading arrest or detention, and criminal mischief, according to police records. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026 In 1931 he was charged with evading federal income taxes from 1924 to 1929. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Oct. 2026 Tankers have undertaken ship-to-ship transfers as a means of evading possible attack. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026 The red dye also allows a road inspector to detect whether a trucker is evading taxes by using the fuel on highways. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 Young rolled to his right, evading Aidan Hutchinson’s pressure, and threw a perfect pass along the sideline in which McMillan stretched his arms and hauled in the catch using all 6-foot-4 of him, his toes to his fingertips. — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 5 Oct. 2026 The authors of Proposition 40 gave it an effective date of January 1, 2026, to prevent billionaires from evading the tax by leaving California after its passage. — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026 Most glaringly, Nvidia continues to work with at least one entity that the US has recently flagged as potentially evading export curbs. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026

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Her style is pithy and blunt, avoiding the ornate sentence structure of classical German.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
However early the experiment might be, the launch is a milestone for an emerging technology that has the potential to help meet AI’s growing demand for compute while avoiding the constraints on resources like power, water, and land on Earth.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026

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