Examples of evasive in a Sentence
She gave an evasive answer.
They took evasive action to avoid capture.
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At least one Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) resolution advisory -- the most serious warning that tells the pilots to take immediate evasive action to avoid a collision -- was triggered per month at Reagan due to proximity to a helicopter from 2011 to 2024, Homendy said.
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Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2025
The flight was descending between 1200 and 1000 feet when TCAS instructed the pilots to take evasive maneuvers to avoid another object.
—Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2025
According to witnesses and vehicle data, the teen didn’t brake or take evasive maneuvers in the seconds leading up to the crash.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
Waldock and Cox both saw that as a clear evasive maneuver by the American Airlines pilot.
—Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2025
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Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2025
The flight was descending between 1200 and 1000 feet when TCAS instructed the pilots to take evasive maneuvers to avoid another object.
—Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2025
According to witnesses and vehicle data, the teen didn’t brake or take evasive maneuvers in the seconds leading up to the crash.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
Waldock and Cox both saw that as a clear evasive maneuver by the American Airlines pilot.
—Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2025
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“Evasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evasive. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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evasive
adjective
eva·sive
i-ˈvā-siv 
-ziv
: tending or meant to evade
gave an evasive answer
evasively
adverb
evasiveness
noun
Legal Definition
evasive
adjective
eva·sive
i-ˈvā-siv, -ziv
: tending or intending to evade
Note: Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(a)(4), an evasive or incomplete answer to an interrogatory or to a question at a deposition is treated as a failure to answer and may be subject to an opponent's motion to compel an answer.
evasively
adverb
evasiveness
noun
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