Tom has been doing a pretty good job of eluding the police, but eventually he'll get caught.
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Eluding
Synonyms for "eluding" (30 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (15)
Noun(14 words)
evasionevasivehard to detectinconspicuouslinguistic indeterminacymissnot intuitiveperplexingsemantic ambiguityslipunachievableunattainableunobservablevagueness
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21 entriesachievementaction verbambiguityavoidancebehavioral attributecategorization ambiguitycognition verbconceptual descriptordescriptordetection avoidanceescapeevadingevasionexplanatory qualitygoal descriptoroutcome descriptor
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21 entriesambiguous naturedetection evasiondodgedodgingelusiveenigmaticescape techniqueevasiveinconspicuouslinguistic ambiguitymissed targetnonattainmentoutsmartperplexingpursuit avoidancesemantic vagueness
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Collocations
15 entriesact of eludingauthoritiescapturecomprehensiondetectioneluding authoritieseluding captureeluding detectioneluding explanationeluding memoryeluding observerseluding pursuerseluding researchersgoalsmemory
Inflections
5 entriesDerivations
7 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Sami is eluding the police.
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