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What is the verb for evasion?

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evade
  1. (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from
  2. (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
  3. (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Testing experts seem certain that athletes who cheat often evade detection.”
      “Whenever one asks them anything on politics, they skilfully evade the question by affirming that they are priests and not politicians.”
      “Despite the cactus, this is clearly rangeland, and we carefully evade the barbed wire as we cross into the field.”
evades
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of evade
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But whatever it is, it craftily evades our attempts to isolate and kill it.”
      “So by claiming to shun public attention he evades confrontations and intensifies public curiosity.”
      “He soon appears as Luther evades capture by the local police, the rogue Secret Service agents and Sullivan's hired assassin.”
evadeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of evade
evadest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of evade
evaded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of evade
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The concept of the possessive apostrophe appears to have evaded his fine mind.”
      “She evaded his grasp and left without another word, sashaying her hips tauntingly.”
      “It was only then that I noticed all sorts of little details which had evaded my notice earlier.”
evading
  1. present participle of evade
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Yet again, he displayed the elusive nature of a Lord Lucan as he succeeded in evading the prying cameras outside Mountjoy.”
      “More easily attained, though, is the goal of evading immediate responsibility for, and criticism of, one's acts.”
      “The intention of the Act was to prevent writers and publishers evading the law by remaining anonymous.”
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