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allude

[uh-lood] / əˈlud /


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Only once during the call, by my reckoning, did Joyner allude to the real reason for the split.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

The statement appears to allude to a number of high-profile dossiers handled by Khan.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

The notebooks do allude to the depression of his wife, Francine Faure, occasioned by his serial infidelity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

In its review, the Hechinger Report found other companies that similarly allude to fictitious government programs.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

I allude to the setting of steel traps for catching vermin.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

Iñárritu portrays the average person as a seal, ready to bark and clap at anything that so much as alludes to reality.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

On TikTok and Instagram, a person's "aura" alludes to their style or attitude, with "100% aura" high praise for the most effortlessly cool persona.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

These paintings, many completed after Ms. Emin’s cancer surgery, show a degree of artistic renewal and maturation that the exhibition’s title alludes to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Still, I appreciated how cinematographer Kevin Atkinson alludes to the dusty Kansas prairie with a shot of a beige strip mall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Catullus tells several of the stories, and Horace alludes to them often, but neither is important for mythology.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Writing in these pages in 1985, Irving Kristol alluded to the political scientist Martin Diamond’s dictum that American democracy “is based on one key assumption: that the people are usually sensible, but rarely wise.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Taylor, while not specifically confirming or denying the allegations, alluded to “youthful indiscretions” from his past that he’s worked through with his wife.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026

And he alluded to Williams suffering from the same issues with varying engine performance that happened in the early days of the new engine rules at Mercedes and McLaren.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

In those letters, published by the Daily Beast, she has thanked the president for “always being there” for her and alluded to a “promise” Trump made to her after she lost her dad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

I felt even more humiliated since Angela had alluded to my spacing out—my seizures—in front of Nicole Castro.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

And the modern compulsion to text cheeky little jokes alluding to the scheme, once again, claims new victims.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026

The documents contained upsetting information alluding to the reason she was taken into care, alongside court records and a personal letter from her social worker.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Metaphorically alluding to the satirical newspaper “The Onion,” the narrator says that to pull off this operation, the team had to stick together like layers of an onion: “Never forget, onion is strength.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

On Monday night, without directly alluding to Skubal, Brewers general manager Matt Arnold said that, “There was some stuff that we considered that was pretty irresponsible.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

“Do you even know what the challenge you are alluding to was?” the man in the grey suit asks.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern


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