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Recent Examples of allusive
In the second Trump era, these viewers seem to prefer a more allusive approach, processing the times through movies about other countries’ authoritarian governments.
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
At times sparse and allusive, Moon’s poems use blank space and other stylistic considerations to convey a voice and thought that ranges from the contemplative to the surreal and absurd.
—Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
The Lady From the Sea, one of Ibsen’s most mysterious and allusive plays, centers on the figure of Ellida, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter with a maritime obsession.
—Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2025
And indeed, the riches of the Afrikaans language are on display in this sensitive, witty, and allusive rendering of Beckett’s European classic.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2025
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
At times sparse and allusive, Moon’s poems use blank space and other stylistic considerations to convey a voice and thought that ranges from the contemplative to the surreal and absurd.
—Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
The Lady From the Sea, one of Ibsen’s most mysterious and allusive plays, centers on the figure of Ellida, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter with a maritime obsession.
—Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2025
And indeed, the riches of the Afrikaans language are on display in this sensitive, witty, and allusive rendering of Beckett’s European classic.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allusive
Adjective
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Any prices or levels shown are either historical or purely indicative.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
23 Feb. 2026
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Some would say these small margins are indicative of luck.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Other technologies that could be phased out include waste heat recovery systems that pull heat from the car’s engine to the interior, solar reflective surface coating and high efficacy exterior lights.—
Julian Torres,
CNN Money,
22 Feb. 2026
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The pair will also include a glow-in-the-dark green rubber outsole and a reflective silver finish on the heel logo.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Semantic bleaching is another linguistic process whereby the denotative content of a word is stripped away.—
Brandon Tensley,
CNN,
10 July 2022
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The paragon of such an attempt is something like Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror, a work that stands as a denotative record of the social media shift, yet still falls to the same difficulties that characterize other cultural criticism of this type.—
SPIN,
SPIN,
8 Feb. 2022
Adjective
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Though most people recover, some develop long-term health problems after their telltale rash clears.—
Erika Edwards,
NBC news,
21 Feb. 2026
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The massive and enthusiastic standing ovation the director got from the turnaway crowd (unusual at AMPAS these days) was a telltale sign this movie was going all the way.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2026
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But the characters are expressive, and the medium is used to unreal ends, which is, after all, what cartoons are good for.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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This expressive, effusive soul could finally use skating to effusively express her soul.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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That frequency depends on the shape of each ridge, which guides the waves down with a characteristic speed.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
25 Feb. 2026
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This ornament, situating them as something between a throw pillow and a hand muff, shrouds the thick-boned fore- and hindquarters that give them a characteristic rolling gait.—
Andrew Norman Wilson,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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These new blood tests can be ordered by primary care physicians for symptomatic individuals and could potentially identify Alzheimer’s much earlier.—
Letters to the Editor,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2026
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But The Fall-Off is symptomatic of a persistent quality that haunts his work.—
Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
9 Feb. 2026
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And perhaps the Nilgiri has something complimentary to say, too, by return of gaze about Bensley’s lovely interiors, which use warm colors and the symbolic palette of Tibetan Buddhism while retaining a quirkiness and insouciance.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Feb. 2026
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Instead, Washington stages high-volume skirmishes over symbolic and petty conflicts.—
Jay Caruso,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Allusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allusive. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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