eludes

verb

present tense third-person singular of elude
as in evades
to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery the millionaire had been eluding his fair share of taxes for years before getting caught

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Recent Examples of eludes Max Mathews Everton With one week to go until the start of the season, a new right-back still eludes Everton. — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026 Although Futterman adeptly surveys tennis’s stressors, the shape of the crisis that tennis faces, and its stakes, eludes him. — Josh Levin, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026 But in the country’s 250th year, many Americans feel the goal, a milestone of adulthood and a marker of financial success, eludes them. — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 28 June 2026 What eludes Keynesians is that while our wants are unlimited, our ability to fulfill our wants is highly limited. — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026 The novel is a modern love story about two friends who meet as children and reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital storytelling that eludes them in their real lives. — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 18 June 2026 But a return to tip-top command – often what eludes a Tommy John patient the most – and stuff will require patience. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 23 May 2026 But even now, their quest for the perfect needle drop eludes predictable pathways. — Hugh Hart, IndieWire, 23 May 2026 Only in the third did the Red Sox put together the kind of inning that so often eludes them. — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 2 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eludes
  1. evades
  2. avoids
  3. escapes
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  • Neither of those interpretations would be entirely invalid, exactly, and yet The Basics of Philosophy — ironically enough, given its title — mostly evades any such moral didacticism.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Journalists and negotiators follow up when someone evades the point.
    — Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of evades
Verb
  • Calibrating policy under current conditions is complicated by Warsh's push for a more mercurial Fed that avoids signaling where policy is heading, preferring for markets to take their own signals from incoming data.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The proportions remain practical, and the overall design avoids some of the visual excesses found elsewhere in the segment.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of avoids
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  • In the book, a fictional AI escapes its lab, runs copies of itself on machines no one is watching, and eventually releases a virus over time.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Network-level protections provide another barrier if an agent escapes its initial sandbox.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of escapes

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“Eludes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eludes. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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