as in elusive
hard to find, capture, or isolate
believers in Bigfoot have never quite explained how such a large creature can be so evasive
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Recent Examples of evasive
Pressed on what had gone wrong, the men were talked in evasive circles, insisting that the team of 18 people behind $HAWK had not sold their tokens.
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
According to the yacht's captain, the suspicious boats followed the vessel's course for two hours, despite evasive maneuvers deployed to shake them off.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
Cruises take evasive action Hurricane Milton is also diverting cruises in the region.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2024
In the aftermath of her tumultuous divorce in 2021 from Mulaney, whose comedy often touched on his relationship with Tendler, her work, including several ongoing photography projects, was quieter, more evasive.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
According to the yacht's captain, the suspicious boats followed the vessel's course for two hours, despite evasive maneuvers deployed to shake them off.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
Cruises take evasive action Hurricane Milton is also diverting cruises in the region.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2024
In the aftermath of her tumultuous divorce in 2021 from Mulaney, whose comedy often touched on his relationship with Tendler, her work, including several ongoing photography projects, was quieter, more evasive.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
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“Evasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evasive. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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