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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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The developers have also added new skills related to the dodge roll, such as the ability to leave behind an illusory copy of your character to act as a decoy, which make the new mechanic feel essential to the modernized gameplay the sequel implements.—
Diego Argüello,
Rolling Stone,
6 Dec. 2024
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Instead of enjoying my time with them and living in the moment, I was preoccupied with trying to curate an illusory holiday vibe.—
Melissa Jean-Baptiste,
refinery29.com,
21 Nov. 2024
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The feature, from experimental filmmaker Matthew Rankin, is an absurdist comedy set in an imaginary Canada where French and Farsi are the country’s two official languages.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Since Southern California was located somewhere near 6:30 on this imaginary clock face, the result was winds traveling from east to west — the opposite of their normal direction.—
Ned Kleiner,
Los Angeles Times,
10 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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The Franklin County and River Valley Coalition recently accused officials of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority and a division of the building authority of being deceptive and called for an investigation.—
Alex Golden,
Axios,
6 Jan. 2025
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Penelope in the Odyssey says that dreams that pass through the gate of ivory are deceptive, while those that pass through the gate of horn are real.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
4 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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To be sure, there are obvious benefits to Israel in the first phase of the agreement.—
The Editors,
National Review,
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 22 Jan. 2025.
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