verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
avoid/evade an issue ( also dodge/duck an issue informal ) (= avoid discussing an issue )
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There is no point in evading the issue any longer.
avoid/evade/dodge a question (= not give a direct answer )
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He had skilfully evaded Margie’s questions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
issue
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There was no point in evading the issue any longer.
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National leaders, when pressed, tried t6 hold the church together by evading the issue .
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Sadly, it chooses to evade these issues rather than to confront them.
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So far, I have evaded a central issue .
problem
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The use of two separate screens evades this problem but produces a clumsy and inconvenient solution.
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I am using this fact as an excuse to evade the problem and leave it out of the classification altogether.
question
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I am not evading your question .
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She had evaded every probing question on that subject.
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It is a clear attempt to evade the question that is being put.
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If fecundity continued to evade her, the question of responsibility was bound to come up sooner or later.
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The Prime Minister evaded the question and never replied to it.
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I spent hours with that wretched boy evading his questions and seeming more stupid by the minute.
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Lady Clanranald returned to Nunton, where she kept Captain Ferguson busy, adroitly evading all questions as to where she had been.
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This is not to evade questions of strategy and tactics, merely to place them in an appropriate context.
responsibility
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Once again men get the whip hand; they can exercise paternal rights or evade parental responsibilities-as they choose.
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Shortly thereafter, the organization evades reality and responsibility by blaming its troubles on either scapegoats or the hazards of fate.
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Local education authorities should not be allowed to evade their responsibility to implement a full policy for the promotion of community languages.
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I could tell her how carefully I have contrived to avoid difficulties and evade irksome responsibilities .
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Neither a man nor a corporation, like Delphi, possessing great influence, can evade political responsibility .
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They see social security staff as biased and prejudiced against the poor and only too ready to evade their responsibility to help.
■ VERB
manage
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For two weeks they managed to evade the press.
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But Jackie Tiptoe managed to evade her vigilance.
seek
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A sanitary code which sought to evade fundamental moral principles could never ultimately succeed.
try
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But by thus trying to evade a threatening situation, she nearly gets destroyed by it.
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If it isn't to do with your feelings about me, what other issue can you be trying to evade ?
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Given a short start, and limited to an agreed area of bush, you had to try to evade discovery.
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Cuvier tried to evade one disturbing implication of extinction by linking the phenomenon to his theory of catastrophic geological changes.
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The evening's entertainment concluded with yobbos trying to evade the patrol of hefty stewards to get to the pitch.
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Many will not register and simply evade or try to evade the tax.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Clever businessmen often manage to evade taxes.
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Fisher pleaded guilty to evading taxes on $51,000 of income.
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Politicians have come up with many tricks to evade campaign spending limits.
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Steve evaded the question when I asked him why he had left work so early.
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The best interviewers make it impossible for politicians to evade the questions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A yacht or fishing vessel would find it quite easy to evade our controls and could carry large amounts of contraband.
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But by thus trying to evade a threatening situation, she nearly gets destroyed by it.
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But will these stories actually help those who want to evade reform to change the subject?
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Could we evade the patrols on the roads?
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Hooligans often take care to evade police escorts and to slip into rival territories unobserved.
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She hadn't rejected him the first time, though, just evaded a decision, wanting him to strengthen it somehow.
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Today, these taxes are still levied by many Third World governments because they are straight forward to collect and hard to evade .