escape detection
idiom
: to not be discovered, found, or noticed
Many cases of fraud escape detection.
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Additionally, new resistance genes may escape detection altogether.
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Nneka Vivian Iduu, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2025
Deployed in such places, shorter-range offensive mobile weapons can better escape detection and destruction.
—Stephen Peter Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
Crossing paths with Norman (Dave Franco), another cabbage smuggler who disguises himself as the country’s beloved national bear to escape detection, briefly enlivens Bubble & Squeak by increasing the stakes.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Schmitt said miners have adapted to escape detection by working at night, setting camp under the forest canopy and choosing old mining pits instead of clearing forest to open new ones.
—Fabiano Maisonnave, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2024
Frodo slips it on multiple times to escape detection.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024
The worry is that an object just a little larger than Saturday’s missile could again escape detection and explode with lethal effect over an unaware, unwarned city.
—Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 20 May 2024
But Hamas’ planning did not totally escape detection.
—Haleigh Bartos, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2023
In each case, armed drones were able to escape detection and exploit coverage gaps in older systems built with larger piloted aircraft in mind.
—Jason Lyall, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2020
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Nneka Vivian Iduu, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2025
Deployed in such places, shorter-range offensive mobile weapons can better escape detection and destruction.
—Stephen Peter Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
Crossing paths with Norman (Dave Franco), another cabbage smuggler who disguises himself as the country’s beloved national bear to escape detection, briefly enlivens Bubble & Squeak by increasing the stakes.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Schmitt said miners have adapted to escape detection by working at night, setting camp under the forest canopy and choosing old mining pits instead of clearing forest to open new ones.
—Fabiano Maisonnave, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2024
Frodo slips it on multiple times to escape detection.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024
The worry is that an object just a little larger than Saturday’s missile could again escape detection and explode with lethal effect over an unaware, unwarned city.
—Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 20 May 2024
But Hamas’ planning did not totally escape detection.
—Haleigh Bartos, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2023
In each case, armed drones were able to escape detection and exploit coverage gaps in older systems built with larger piloted aircraft in mind.
—Jason Lyall, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2020
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“Escape detection.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/escape%20detection. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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