RECALL BEFORE REVEAL

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An act of avoiding a duty, difficulty, or direct response.

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evasion

Her repeated changes of subject sounded like evasion rather than an answer.
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When readers asked what had gone wrong, the editor's first reply was an evasion: it discussed the bulletin's volunteer effort without answering the question about the copied sentence.
From Correcting the Public Account.
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