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escape notice



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Idioms and Phrases

Elude attention or observation, as in It must have escaped the editor's notice so I'll write again . [c. 1700]

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Example Sentences

The cover is embossed with a gold symbol that might escape notice.

There is another Inaccuracy, which tho of less Consequence, ought not to escape notice.

In the midst of it all two figures were espied, slinking along toward the boat-landing, anxious to escape notice.

By washing out the sand in the sieve the smallest specimens, which might otherwise escape notice, may be secured.

A small cross is placed here by small points of distinction which might escape notice.

The rewards and penalties of moral law easily escape notice in our hasty and superficial study of life.

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