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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avoided capture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone or something successfully evades being caught or captured, often in a narrative or descriptive setting.
Example: "The fugitive skillfully avoided capture by changing his appearance and moving through the back alleys of the city."
Alternatives: "escaped apprehension" or "eluded capture".
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Some attackers identifiable in the videos avoided capture altogether.
They avoided capture, hitched a ride and made it to the protest.
Yet some who appeared guilty based on video evidence avoided capture or charges.
Yet Osama bin Laden avoided capture and escaped across the Afghan border into Pakistan.
(Saddam himself, of course, avoided capture for another five months, hiding elsewhere, and was executed three years later).
But Beatrice, who was 17, avoided capture by climbing out the attic window and huddling on the roof for hours.
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He took elaborate measures to avoid capture.
As it might, for instance, to avoid capture by territorial Martians.
The gun-running ship was scuttled to avoid capture and Conrad ran into financial difficulties.
"But they're getting ever better at avoiding capture, and they're also increasingly armed".
Mullah Safi told Reuters that he changed his location frequently to avoid capture.
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