elude
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High-speed trains, and pretty much any mass transportation improvement, continue to elude the United States, but one can experience them elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Answers elude the watchful girl even as Ms. Keegan illuminates each telling detail of the land, of farm life and of adult ways.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
The Londoner - having previously lost in world championship bouts to Sergey Kovalev in 2019 and Artur Beterbiev in 2022 - may now have to accept the possibility that a world title might elude him.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
El-Fasher, the last state capital in the vast region of Darfur to elude the RSF's grasp, has become the latest strategic front in the war as the paramilitaries attempt to consolidate power in the west.
From Barron's • Oct. 11, 2025
The evening was now drawing close, and well I knew that at sunset the Thing, which was till then imprisoned there, would take new freedom and could in any of many forms elude all pursuit.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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