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Recent Examples of illusive
There is nothing wrong with wanting to be in communication or to lurk on their pages — especially when Venus retrograde links up with illusive Neptune on March 27th.
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Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 27 Feb. 2025
The month wraps up with a very special cosmic event, as illusive and intuitive Neptune will leave your sign for the first time in nearly 15 years, ingressing into fiery Aries.
—Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 24 Feb. 2025
The ever-illusive Banksy, whose real identity remains a mystery, was not always so secretive, reveals the BBC.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Howl, an illusive magic-user, takes over the cooking from Sophie, placing bacon in the pan and feeding egg shells to Calcifer, who happily munches away on the detritus.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
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Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 27 Feb. 2025
The month wraps up with a very special cosmic event, as illusive and intuitive Neptune will leave your sign for the first time in nearly 15 years, ingressing into fiery Aries.
—Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 24 Feb. 2025
The ever-illusive Banksy, whose real identity remains a mystery, was not always so secretive, reveals the BBC.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Howl, an illusive magic-user, takes over the cooking from Sophie, placing bacon in the pan and feeding egg shells to Calcifer, who happily munches away on the detritus.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for illusive
Adjective
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Elegant yet illusory, the pearls become armor for a woman determined to turn artifice into art.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
25 Oct. 2025
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Man, woman, dog—their illusory life was over.—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In those meetings, our would-be bosses told us to make mock phone calls to prospective clients to gauge our ability to convince strangers about the merit of an imaginary product.—
Snigdha Poonam,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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Each one was built by a Ramona family, less to keep away any errant birds from imaginary crops at the Grange parking lot, but more to celebrate fall and enjoy a family collaboration.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.—
Hillary Kelly,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2024
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To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
5 July 2022
Adjective
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In New Jersey, creating or sharing deceptive AI media can lead to prison time and fines.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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But the first time around, producers relied on deceptive camera angles and some CGI to edit out her pregnancy belly.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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One obvious reason for my interest in the movie, then, was that Walter Matthau reminded me, a little bit, of my father.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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There are good pieces in place, but replacing or re-signing Bregman seems to be an obvious offseason priority, and another impact starter would certainly help.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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These concerns stem from high levels of speculative investment—totaling hundreds of billions of dollars—in artificial intelligence with few manifest payoffs, as well as the market’s top-heavy structure, with significant value concentrated in a handful of AI-bullish tech stocks.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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In that vacuum, religious zealots and cults manifest, nihilism thrives, and families are torn apart.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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He has been criticized for making unscientific and misleading statements, including COVID-19 misinformation and promoting conspiracy theories, and affirming antisemitic, racist, and transphobic comments.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
28 Oct. 2025
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Murphy said that’s misleading because many incidents never make it into official statistics.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That is delusory of course, but it can be fashioned into a victory claim that might well be readily embraced by war-weary and war-wary Russians in the public and among the elite.—
John Mueller,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Nov. 2022
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“Illusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illusive. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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