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Recent Examples of allusive
And indeed, the riches of the Afrikaans language are on display in this sensitive, witty, and allusive rendering of Beckett’s European classic.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2025
Every two-color page shows off some new and unexpected layout or brush technique — there are cutaways and maps and mythical creatures and beautiful, allusive drawings of tigers and flames.
—Sam Thielman, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
The allusive, charged opening sequence alone would qualify as a devastating short film on the subject.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
As a former foreign correspondent, Fenton has had experiences similar to my own, but poetry provides a more allusive, emotional language than journalism.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 11 Oct. 2024
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2025
Every two-color page shows off some new and unexpected layout or brush technique — there are cutaways and maps and mythical creatures and beautiful, allusive drawings of tigers and flames.
—Sam Thielman, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
The allusive, charged opening sequence alone would qualify as a devastating short film on the subject.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
As a former foreign correspondent, Fenton has had experiences similar to my own, but poetry provides a more allusive, emotional language than journalism.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allusive
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Sony’s double-dipping is indicative of a larger trend, where the terms remake and remaster begin to blur — but the steep price tag remains constant.—
George Yang,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 2025
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Under the public safety order, that same data — especially anything interpreted as a behavioral risk factor — could be flagged by AI as indicative of potential danger.—
Kate Caldwell,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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His reflective blue shades were perched atop a baseball cap, obscuring much of his face.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
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The pride in Plough’s expressions and the tone of his voice was reflective of the theme that every victory is to be savored in this rough-and-tumble sport, one in which no one weeps for the wounded.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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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
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Stay vigilant by monitoring the sky for ominous signs and listening for the telltale sound of thunder.—
Southern California Weather Report,
Oc Register,
29 Sep. 2025
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While our villa had not been recently refreshed, the only telltale sign was the excessively large switches and dimmers trailing up the walls.—
Kathryn Romeyn,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Sep. 2025
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For those of us who have loved Carmen Maura since the first of her seven features with Pedro Almodóvar 45 years ago, watching her expressive face in Calle Málaga is its own wondrous reward.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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Clinical leaders working with psychedelics could incorporate music‑based therapy, sound baths and expressive visual and vocal art for trauma, not as an add-on, but as tools on par with talk therapy.—
Sonia Singh,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
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Anthropic, which did not publish examples of the chatbot’s responses, has been cautious not to suggest that this characteristic alone means that the bot is sentient.—
Webb Wright,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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But most important to our search for the real Mary is that as a young girl she would have been exposed to a diverse environment combining Jewish, Greek, and Roman cultures, high and low, in a mix that was characteristic of the multicultural region of Galilee into which she was born.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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The proliferation of new bike lanes, Taleb argued, is symptomatic of a political system that favors visible, immediate, and consumer-friendly projects.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
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In babies aged five to eight months who developed symptomatic RSV, 26 percent of those who had received a low dose of the vaccine developed a severe case of RSV, compared with 8 percent of those who received the placebo.—
Tara Haelle,
Scientific American,
23 Sep. 2025
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Contemporary fiction as it is practiced today in many mainstream forms is honed to that rapid symbolic interpretation.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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Even they’re relegated to little more than supporting players and symbolic representations of troubled youth straight out of a BBC kitchen-sink passion play.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Allusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allusive. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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