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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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Johnson's dig at the team's ability to move the ball through the air is very indicative of how things have gone since the season opener.—
Aaliyan Mohammed,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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This kind of wear is indicative of chewing hard, mechanically challenging foods such as tubers, seeds, fungi and fruit pits.—
Aditya Reddy Kurre,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
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Manicurist Brittney Boyce, Fox's go-to nail artist, mimicked that deep red color on the star's nails—with a modern, reflective cats-eye texture.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
27 Oct. 2025
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Adding reflective tape to costumes or bags, wearing bright colors and carrying a flashlight or glow stick can help drivers see trick-or-treaters.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
24 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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Infected people usually experience a telltale rash that appears in stages and is located on the hands, feet, chest, face, or mouth, or near the genitals.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
17 Oct. 2025
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Teig came upon piles of green scat, a telltale sign that an animal was close by.—
Devon O’Neil,
Outside,
15 Oct. 2025
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The resulting image depicts a loose choreography—several children hold their ringed arms in front of them, fingertips touching—but the over-all impression is one of gleeful, expressive chaos.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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It was thought that the simple last scene of Tom readying Ethan’s bedroom and giving the always subtly expressive Ruffalo a moment of quiet introspection would do the trick.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
23 Oct. 2025
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While detecting the characteristic signature from these gravitational waves would be revolutionary, there’s no guarantee that’s possible.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Oct. 2025
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Their flat sole, oval toe, and characteristic side stripes have won over seemingly everyone.—
Renata Joffre,
Glamour,
19 Oct. 2025
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The novelist Harold Brodkey witnessed a symptomatic scene.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Apart from the rare individual that survives and develops immunity, symptomatic deer will succumb to EHD within 36 hours.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
9 Oct. 2025
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Barclays Plc is returning to Saudi Arabia after an 11-year absence, marking both a strategic expansion for the British lender and a symbolic validation of Riyadh’s growing status as the Middle East’s corporate command hub.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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This confirms that the Scythian animal style first developed in the east, later expanding its iconography and symbolic significance to include deer, griffins, boars, and more.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Allusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allusive. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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