elude
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But he’s not afraid to admit that difficult modern poems can elude him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Amy Hunt retained her 100m title on Saturday and despite winning 200m silver at last year's World Championships, the national title continues to elude her.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
While eye-popping gains will elude them, even schools that have less exposure can see big gains by more conventional measures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
After disappearing in 1993, Messina Denaro managed to elude authorities for the next 30 years as the Italian state cracked down on the Sicilian mob.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
From somewhere in him, out of the depths of flesh and blood and bone, he called up energy to run and dodge with but one impulse: he had to elude these men.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
It’s also likely that the true extent and reach of these secret sponsorships still eludes us.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
Not every collection is a success: a delicate red-orange shrimp daintily eludes the suction tube, swirling its long antenna as it swims almost triumphantly beyond reach.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
The New York Times is always entertaining when it grapples, or fails to grapple, with climate change, the scale of which simply eludes it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
It eludes him like a mechanical rabbit on a track.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
She wants to bring them up to have the middle-class ease that still eludes her.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
He had eluded capture by setting up several camps in dense bush and despite several sightings by the public and on CCTV.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The U.S.—with about 16 million total annual vehicle sales and a large potential for profit—has eluded Volkswagen for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
He won a fifth title with Aston Villa in May - their win over Freiburg in Istanbul ending a 30-year trophy drought - but the Super Cup has eluded him.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
But a full retrospective at one of her hometown’s major museums eluded her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
This time, however, he had eluded his surveillance team.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
“It’s this shrewd way that they’re protecting their information and eluding public oversight,” Shapiro said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
This is an example of what Tuchel was likely eluding to when using the word "sloppy".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
But eluding the music of rock royalty is no easy task.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Peddemors netted again with a cross that found its way in after eluding several players before Beerensteyn rifled in from distance to double Wolfsburg's lead.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
Brinker Hadley had been tagged with a nickname at last, after four years of creating them for others and eluding one himself.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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