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Recent Examples of allusive
Yarvin tends to extreme digression, while Land speaks with the allusive compression of a guru.
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James Duesterberg, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
David Bowie, charming in interviews, and leaning toward the abstract and allusive in his lyrics, was not given to weighing in on news events.
—Alexander Larman, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
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
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James Duesterberg, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
David Bowie, charming in interviews, and leaning toward the abstract and allusive in his lyrics, was not given to weighing in on news events.
—Alexander Larman, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allusive
Adjective
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One person alone isn’t indicative of UCLA’s wins or losses, Inouye-Perez says.—
Liana Handler,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
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According to Fontaine, the experiment demonstrated that sterile soil supports a flow of electrons indicative of processes that resemble the oxygen-dependent metabolism of the Krebs cycle.—
Siddhant Pusdekar,
Quanta Magazine,
1 June 2026
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Designed by a team that includes Burns & McDonnell, Zahner, an architectural metal fabricator, and KEM Studio, the pavilion features a reflective metal canopy inspired by the reflection and flow of the Missouri River.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
30 May 2026
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This inward, reflective energy will be around longer than usual as Mercury slows to a station retrograde in Cancer on June 29, extending its stay there all the way into early August.—
Kirah Tabourn,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 May 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
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Indeed, Uthemier’s lawsuit bears telltale signs of DeSantis’ bigotry and anti-diversity, anti-equality and anti-inclusion mania.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
29 May 2026
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Stay vigilant by monitoring the sky for ominous signs and listening for the telltale sound of thunder.—
Bay Area Weather Report,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026
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Designs incorporate brighter color palettes and graphic elements associated with the Bratz brand, positioning the capsule within a more expressive segment of the activewear market.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
28 May 2026
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That 25% rye firmly places it in the high-rye camp, while the Texas climate accelerates maturation, yielding a more expressive profile.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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What the Ohio State study adds is a direct comparison with urban warming in the same experiment, and a demonstration that even at the low intensities characteristic of ordinary residential lighting, light pollution wins.—
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Living for today, everyone apparently agreed, was characteristic of a youth culture that was dropping out from a system and society responsible for cutting life short both at home and abroad.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
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The plans also included bringing in bio containment units and isolation units if individuals became symptomatic and until they were transported to a tertiary facility.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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The lack of lab capacity means symptomatic patients suspected of having the virus can wait for days for test results, increasing the risk of them leaving isolation prematurely, Kojan said.—
Tom Soufi Burridge,
ABC News,
28 May 2026
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Taken together, those cultural threads help explain why food – and especially meat – carries an outsized symbolic role in Texas politics, where the official state dish, adopted in 1977, is chili, defined by its significant meat base.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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For inheritors of the banana leaf-wrapping tradition, this practice has both the literal and symbolic capacity to contain that relationship.—
Sophia Rey,
JSTOR Daily,
28 May 2026
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“Allusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allusive. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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