How to Use evade detection in a Sentence

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  • And the amount of the hormone produced may evade detection by a simple pregnancy test.
    — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
  • On the loose and nearly invisible, rogue planets evade detection in much the same way that black holes do.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2020
  • There are also many migrants who manage to sneak across the border and evade detection.
    — New York Times, 10 June 2022
  • In the past few years, migrants have taken increasingly risky paths to evade detection and enter the US.
    — Andi Babineau, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In the past years, migrants have taken increasingly risky paths to evade detection and enter the US.
    — Rosa Flores, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
  • For example, to evade detection Josiah didn’t just use a VPN.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
  • But pork that isn’t detected, and gets discarded in the US—to evade detection, or maybe just because it’s gone bad—could spark a chain of infection here.
    — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 12 Oct. 2021
  • But now, in a study published last week in the journal Nature, researchers share how the imminent eruption managed to evade detection.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Cancer cells, in turn, can produce molecules that block PD-1 and evade detection by the immune system.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2022
  • Yet all over the stands, stewards were seen removing fans without tickets, while others simply bounced from seat to seat to evade detection.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 11 July 2021
  • For years, the aspiring spy had gone to remarkable lengths to protect his identity and evade detection.
    — William Wan, Ian Shapira, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • As the debris spiralled downward, gathering speed, the Air Force was keeping a close watch, but small things in space can easily evade detection.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The secret transfers usually take place at night to evade detection by regional coast guards.
    — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Survival skills like how to break into cars; how to evade detection; how to break into a house or building with or without a lock pick; how to locate surveillance systems.
    — Monroe Trombly, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2022
  • In the past, sheriff’s officials have defended the use of bike stops as a legitimate tool to fight crime and have argued that criminals use bikes to evade detection.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
  • There's always the potential for hidden problems that can evade detection.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But the idea behind the two weapons is the same: Allow a remote operator to take out a target with deadly efficiency and evade detection and air defense.
    — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • These examples helped train the machine learning programs to recognize signs of ships trying to evade detection.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Your methods can be — again, just for example — to engage with your sister-in-law only on your terms, often enough to evade detection but infrequently enough not to get sucked in.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In recent years, migrants have resorted to increasingly risky – and often fatal – paths to evade detection and enter the US.
    — Rachel Clarke, CNN, 18 July 2023
  • Sans sonobuoys, submarines rely on the opacity of the world's oceans to evade detection, sneaking up on enemy ships before ambushing them with a brace of missiles or torpedoes.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The Army is staking its flying future on aircraft that can cruise like planes over vast expanses of the Pacific and Africa, hover like helicopters, and evade detection with swift maneuvers.
    — Dallas News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The family relocated to Cincinnati and then to Miami to evade detection, Westover said.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 2 June 2023
  • Yet many viruses have evolved ways to dampen cells’ interferon production or evade detection.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Shadowbanning allows platforms to suppress harmful content without giving the people who post it a playbook for how to evade detection next time.
    — Gabriel Nicholas, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • To Wendy Plunk, Zach’s mother, the ease with which dealers can evade detection is particularly devastating.
    — New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • Stegmap malware uses steganography, the hiding of code within an ordinary-looking image file to evade detection.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Sheriff’s officials defended the use of bike stops as a necessary and legitimate tool to fight crime, arguing that criminals use bikes to evade detection.
    — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Separated from them in the House chamber, Raskin described people around him calling to say goodbye to their families, members removing their congressional pins to try to evade detection.
    — Tim Darnell, ajc, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Like invaders in disguise, wily variants might evade detection by certain antibodies.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 July 2021

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