EVADES Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

evades

verb

present tense third-person singular of evade

as in avoids

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 evades This skin-crawling faux-documentary concerns a prolific New York serial killer who evades capture despite recording his brazen crimes. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026 However, Noussair Mazraoui evades Casemiro’s challenge far too easily before Bilal El Khannouss releases Achraf Hakimi on the far side. — Mark Carey, New York Times, 6 July 2026 If the armed forces are the instrument through which the president evades the Constitution, then the leaders of those armed forces must answer for their role. — Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 25 June 2026 Panthalassa evades these regional regulatory and environmental obstacles by deploying autonomous computing nodes directly into deep water. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026 And though bound together as one 10-county region, the Hudson Valley actively evades a uniform identity. — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026 In March, the French navy seized an oil tanker in the Mediterranean that Macron said belonged ‌to Russia’s shadow fleet, which comprises several hundred tankers through which Russia evades sanctions. — Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 1 June 2026 At one point, Griffin appears to lunge at Manetta, who evades him by ducking behind a column on the platform. — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026 Mr Cobra evades most classification from there, blending free jazz, musique concrète, ’00s pop, house, industrial techno, and air horns, interlaced with dialogue snipped from Korean folk operas and experimental films. — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026

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And the lichen also avoids non-bearing rocks like granite, sandstone, and quartzite, where its occurrence dropped to less than one percent.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026
For the record, my hunch is Notre Dame avoids the flat-tire game that’s dogged Freeman.

— Pete Sampson, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

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According to the report, most of the cancer risk - 74% - comes from a single pollutant, benzo[a]pyrene, that escapes through leaks in pipe fittings and storage tanks.

— Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
From beachfront retreats in Miami to remote escapes off the coast of Newfoundland, these are the best of the best hotels across the US and Canada.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026

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