as in escape
the act or a means of getting or keeping away from something undesirable
pleading chronic back pain is my standard evasion for doing any heavy lifting
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Recent Examples of evasion
Todd and Julie Chrisley were found guilty by a jury on counts that include bank fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy.
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Phil Helsel, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2025
The reality star, 27, shared on the Jan. 28 episode of her Unlocked podcast that the Federal Prison Camp in Pensacola, where Todd Chrisley is currently being held amid his 12-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion, will be closing.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025
In 2023, then-IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel noted that, with IRA money, CI closed several cases in which wealthy taxpayers were sentenced for tax evasion, money laundering, and filing false tax returns.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2025
In traditional dictatorships, critics are often charged with crimes such as sedition, treason, or plotting insurrection, but contemporary autocrats tend to prosecute critics for more mundane offenses, such as corruption, tax evasion, defamation, and even minor violations of arcane rules.
—Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025
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Phil Helsel, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2025
The reality star, 27, shared on the Jan. 28 episode of her Unlocked podcast that the Federal Prison Camp in Pensacola, where Todd Chrisley is currently being held amid his 12-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion, will be closing.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025
In 2023, then-IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel noted that, with IRA money, CI closed several cases in which wealthy taxpayers were sentenced for tax evasion, money laundering, and filing false tax returns.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2025
In traditional dictatorships, critics are often charged with crimes such as sedition, treason, or plotting insurrection, but contemporary autocrats tend to prosecute critics for more mundane offenses, such as corruption, tax evasion, defamation, and even minor violations of arcane rules.
—Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Evasion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evasion. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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