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Recent Examples of illusive
During a mission to take down the illusive super criminal Lucy Diamond (Jordana Brewster), Amy develops an attraction to the enemy and finds her loyalties tested.
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 June 2024
While seeking out the illusive murderer, Bryce and Hunt discover something much darker lurking within the city — a monstrous power that could destroy everything, including their burgeoning passion for one another.
—Alyssa Davis, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
This granular texture of the electroplated coating is, in my opinion, a key determining factor of the illusive beauty of silvered and gilded dials.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 13 May 2024
Horror comedy is an illusive brand of humor, lots of hits and a ton of misses.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2023
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 June 2024
While seeking out the illusive murderer, Bryce and Hunt discover something much darker lurking within the city — a monstrous power that could destroy everything, including their burgeoning passion for one another.
—Alyssa Davis, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
This granular texture of the electroplated coating is, in my opinion, a key determining factor of the illusive beauty of silvered and gilded dials.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 13 May 2024
Horror comedy is an illusive brand of humor, lots of hits and a ton of misses.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for illusive
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Perfect justice is illusory because our parents or birthplace are serendipitous.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
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To me, the ending leaves as an open question whether Tóth has retreated to illusory safe ground or found a more hospitable home.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2025
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If a planet is visible from the night side of Earth, it can only ever be seen along an imaginary path through the sky called the ecliptic.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Monday’s victory was only a month and a week removed from one of the more embarrassing losses of the Knicks season, an NBA Cup quarterfinal loss Young punctuated by rolling a set of imaginary die on The Garden’s center-court logo.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
21 Jan. 2025
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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
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Doing so could constitute a deceptive trade practice, and the Colorado Attorney General’s Office or local district attorneys could then investigate to determine the cause of the price hike.—
Seth Klamann,
The Denver Post,
20 Jan. 2025
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The 81-page federal complaint charging Universal Music Group with defamation, harassment and payola (deceptive business practices) is a page-turner that seems penned more for press and public consumption (and perhaps label renegotiation) than judicial inspection.—
Bill Hochberg,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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There is an obvious set of two scoring lines and two shutdown lines available.—
Murat Ates,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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Making obvious your goal of understanding is a powerful way of creating goodwill.—
Kurt Gray,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
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For markets, this China-first approach has been manifest in Washington’s promiscuous use of unilateral sanctions against Asian companies that interact with China’s high-tech industrial base.—
Evan A. Feigenbaum,
Forbes,
5 Jan. 2025
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The center of attention is light as a hinge between new science and old religion — Christian, Jewish and Muslim — as manifest in around 100 Medieval art objects made in Western Europe.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Nov. 2024
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“Illusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illusive. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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