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Recent Examples of illusive
This granular texture of the electroplated coating is, in my opinion, a key determining factor of the illusive beauty of silvered and gilded dials.
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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
The California native was also furious that the online profile was listed close by, given his entirely virtual relationship with the illusive Carmella.
—Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 3 July 2023
These are songs of worry and longing, rapturous hymnals to the fortifying qualities of booze, and elegies for the illusive wisdom we’re told is supposed to come with maturation.
—James Robins, Vulture, 1 May 2023
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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
The California native was also furious that the online profile was listed close by, given his entirely virtual relationship with the illusive Carmella.
—Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 3 July 2023
These are songs of worry and longing, rapturous hymnals to the fortifying qualities of booze, and elegies for the illusive wisdom we’re told is supposed to come with maturation.
—James Robins, Vulture, 1 May 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for illusive
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Fazio has grappled with that challenge while studying the illusory truth effect: how repeating something that is false will make a person more likely to believe it.ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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The auction prices and the professorships and even the art hanging on the wall by now seemed illusory.Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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And the exasperation goes from imaginary frustration to real annoyance.Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
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And through her mesmerizing filmmaking, Kapadia creates a world that didn’t seem possible — which, of course, reinforces how imaginary this new place might prove to be.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
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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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But deceptive narrative and form are not what wreaked havoc on Catherine’s life.Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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See Arizona election results | Live coverage on Election Day Labor activists, on the other hand, have called the measure a deceptive sham.Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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But what was once hard to fathom is now an obvious reality.Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
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In a race supposedly too close to call, the surprise wasn't that Trump won, which was always an obvious possibility, but how quickly the results took shape — this was supposed to take days, remember.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2024
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This need for checks and balances is also manifest in the manner prescribed for choosing the president.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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This mirrors how Bohm conceptualized reality: both the implicate order (the underlying unseen reality) and the explicate order (the manifest physical world) constantly influence each other.Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Illusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illusive. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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