evading

verb

Definition of evadingnext
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 driver was arrested on charges of unlawful gun possession and evading police and booked at the Sacramento County Juvenile Hall. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2025 Chau paid local fishermen to take him near North Sentinel Island, evading the exclusion zone. — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025 Christian Garcia, 27, was charged with vehicular manslaughter, evading a peace officer, leaving the scene of an accident, cruelly wounding an animal and felony drunk driving, according to court records. — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2025

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