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Recent Examples of allusive
Some are allusive, like the way Sang-won has acquired Ui-ju’s habit of spicing up instant ramen with chilli paste.
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Jessica Kiang, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
Ray Johnson, a master of the collage, made work that was cryptic, obsessive, and densely allusive.
—Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
Their plots were complex, nested, allusive, the sort of TV that demanded activity and attention rather than passivity.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
Style often allowed a filmmaker to set a mood in an allusive way.
—Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2023
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Jessica Kiang, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
Ray Johnson, a master of the collage, made work that was cryptic, obsessive, and densely allusive.
—Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
Their plots were complex, nested, allusive, the sort of TV that demanded activity and attention rather than passivity.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
Style often allowed a filmmaker to set a mood in an allusive way.
—Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allusive
Adjective
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The disappearance of the streetscape, put in place following the George Floyd protests in 2020, is indicative of what’s happened in Trump 2.0 — an all-out war on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, in the government and outside of it.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
18 May 2025
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If New York’s Game 6 performance was indicative of what’s to come, the team may not be done playing for a while.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
Adjective
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The city of Alameda, Calif., halted an experiment to spray sea-salt particles skyward to make clouds more reflective.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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For far too long, hearing folks have co-opted and told our stories, and 100% of them are not reflective of our experiences.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
19 May 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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Lively expressive aromas that include candy cane and After Eight mints as well as blueberries, red cherries and violets.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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May 9 Public Tour — Auguste Rodin: A century after his death, Auguste Rodin continues to be recognized for making figurative sculpture modern by redefining the expressive capacity of the human form.—
Jake Richardson,
Mercury News,
5 May 2025
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Still, diving is so integral to Jeju’s population that the shortening of words characteristic of the Jeju language is attributed to the need for divers to communicate quickly, according to the new study.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
7 May 2025
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This is characteristic of the species, researchers said.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
5 May 2025
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Lat injuries can also sometimes mask shoulder injuries, or be symptomatic of shoulder injuries.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2025
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Two patients became symptomatic after three hours, while another took 15 hours to start experiencing symptoms.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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Honora also pointed to the symbolic nature of the pope's ancestry.—
Elizabeth Thomas,
ABC News,
9 May 2025
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More symbolic may be the dagger tattoo on his left forearm.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
9 May 2025
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“Allusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allusive. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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