escape detection

idiom

: to not be discovered, found, or noticed
Many cases of fraud escape detection.

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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 The vessels move very low in the water to escape detection but rarely are able to fully submerge. Stephen Smith, CBS News, 9 May 2023

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“Escape detection.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/escape%20detection. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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