elusiveness
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It played into Mr. Bird’s elusiveness, his mystery, his aversion to selling himself, his feat of somehow being both the player of his generation and a complete unknown—a Bob Dylan in sneakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
Page, nicknamed MVP, outpointed Cannonier in trademark fashion with the American unable to deal with his speed and elusiveness.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2025
“We felt her presence in the lack of it,” he writes of her funeral, a fitting coda to her elusiveness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
His elusiveness even sparked theories about whether he existed.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025
It was difficult to be specific when the core of a man’s character was elusiveness.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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