adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
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A party of puffins had to take evasive action as they nearly flew into the side of the ship.
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If the Nations Air crew had been alerted, it might not have had to take evasive action .
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He poised himself, blade weaving defensively before him, ready to take instant evasive action .
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All of us realised that there was nothing we could do, no evasive action we could take.
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And all creatures who hear it in time take their own appropriate, evasive action .
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He could neither move to attack nor take evasive action .
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The alarm call stimulates other nearby blackbirds to take evasive action .
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When the current recession gripped, they decided to take evasive action .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All their questions were met with vague, evasive answers.
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an evasive answer
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When we asked him where his wife was, O'Hare suddenly became evasive .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the bird's standard evasive tactic is ill-suited to the airport.
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And these narrative solutions are invariably negative or evasive .
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Blood had been spilt this time despite all the evasive tactics and diplomacy.
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Courtroom observers described him as alternately charming and evasive .
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It had been a strange conversation: Riverton was nervous, evasive .
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She's quite vague, even evasive about it.