evade detection
idiom
: to avoid being found out or discovered
His criminal activities somehow evaded detection.
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The internet is flooded with tutorials from extremists and hobbyists, showing how to modify commercial drones to carry explosives, deliver shocks, or evade detection.
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Jessica Tisch, New York Daily News, 6 July 2025
Cocaine can be dumped into the water to evade detection from law enforcement or to be picked up by other smugglers, but currents or storms can carry the packages to shore.
—July 1, CBS News, 1 July 2025
Already, threat actors are leveraging AI to automate attacks and evade detection, exploiting vulnerabilities at scale.
—Steve Durbin, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
This creates opportunities to exploit non-machine-readable formats to evade detection.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
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Jessica Tisch, New York Daily News, 6 July 2025
Cocaine can be dumped into the water to evade detection from law enforcement or to be picked up by other smugglers, but currents or storms can carry the packages to shore.
—July 1, CBS News, 1 July 2025
Already, threat actors are leveraging AI to automate attacks and evade detection, exploiting vulnerabilities at scale.
—Steve Durbin, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
This creates opportunities to exploit non-machine-readable formats to evade detection.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
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“Evade detection.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evade%20detection. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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