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- noun Plural form of
evasion .
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Examples
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Still, the impulse behind many of Ambrose's evasions is understandable.
The Real War 2001
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Still, the impulse behind many of Ambrose's evasions is understandable.
The Real War 2001
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DeSoto, your evasions are a demonstration of that.
TEXAS FAITH: Time to tax religious groups? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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One never saw her on the roads or the paths, no more than crossing fields; as for hoping on the complicity of the peasants to support her evasions, that is intolerable to the superstitious character of the Breton.
Sorcery in Brittany Christopher 2007
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One never saw her on the roads or the paths, no more than crossing fields; as for hoping on the complicity of the peasants to support her evasions, that is intolerable to the superstitious character of the Breton.
Archive 2007-07-01 Christopher 2007
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It was well known to the initiated also, that successful "evasions" from the French penal settlements were hushed up with nervous caution whenever possible and that the news of even an attempted escape was seldom printed in
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Panic Attack, U.S.A. is a series of heartbreaking evasions, alternating with a series of equally heartbreaking effusions; its central figure is by turns distraught, wry, coy, angry, self-defeating, and self-effacing.
Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011
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"Like any well intentioned persons of society, government is equally interested in unearthing the black money, bringing the money to the country, if possible, as and when possible, and at the same time to take steps to plug the loopholes through which these evasions have taken place," he said.
Indian Government Tracking Illegal Money Stashed Overseas 2011
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And try as you might to define this "people" they speak of and you invariably discover only countless individual creatures who identify themselves by their own hungers and fears and wisdoms and evasions, with perhaps their own driver's licenses to someday pilot their own such vehicles, insignificant on a single retread or colossal too with a thousand beating wings.
Nancy Chuda: To Invent Fire Nancy Chuda 2011
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Panic Attack, U.S.A. is a series of heartbreaking evasions, alternating with a series of equally heartbreaking effusions; its central figure is by turns distraught, wry, coy, angry, self-defeating, and self-effacing.
Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011
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