allusions
Example Sentences
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Allusions to the well-being of their employees are “a cover for cowardice,” he told me.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022
Allusions to marital problems are typically subtle and wry.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021
Allusions to it gradually proliferated, with its "sinister" title quickly winning it the most lurid, conspiracy-theory reputation.
From Salon • Sep. 13, 2020
Allusions and motifs from older games, famous and obscure, turn up everywhere.
From Slate • Oct. 26, 2017
Some Remarks are spent in explaining Passages, where the Wit or Satire depends on an obscure Point of History: Others, where Allusions are to Divinity, Philosophy, or other Branches of Science.
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol
