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Main Entry:
il·lu·sive
[
ih-
loo
-siv
]
/
ɪˈlu
sɪv
/
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illusive
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Example Sentences
The labs themselves are dealing more with the illusive future than the illustrious past, though.
Plenty of dumb companies promise more than they can deliver and sell their souls chasing the illusive big payoff that never comes.
Thus, time and space is both traversed instantaneously as the illusive tachyon particle.
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The labs themselves are dealing more with the illusive future than the illustrious past, though.
Plenty of dumb companies promise more than they can deliver and sell their souls chasing the illusive big payoff that never comes.
Thus, time and space is both traversed instantaneously as the illusive tachyon particle.
Shawcross's illusive vanishing point effectuates an unstable space.
Normalcy, peace, and well being are illusive for many.
One cannot determine whether the choices another person makes in his or her daily life are real or illusive choices.
The concept is simple, yet true confidence can be so illusive.
Apart from this physical creation they are illusive as a ghost.
It was the only bid to carry that shimmering, illusive word, written in black ink rather than red: pay.
The origin of life is still illusive to scientists, but they continue to seek the answers.
Maybe musicians will stop coveting some illusive perfection and embrace the work of mere mortals who walk among them.
In the absence of physical things with specific boundaries space and time are as illusive as a ghost.
Cayote the ever scheming stalker of the illusive bird.
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