elude

But the kind of attention even her lesser work with Wagoner enjoyed continued to elude her own material.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 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

David, the American narrator of this groundbreaking novel by James Baldwin, has come to Paris hoping to elude his homosexuality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 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

They had chosen their hiding-spot well; to the left of us was a steep wooded bank they could have forced us into had we tried to elude them.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

The first free-standing restaurant may have been the “Old American,” opened maybe a year earlier, but it too eludes confirmation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

The more anxious I am to find sleep, the more it eludes me.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

When the Hammer selected Caland for “Made in L.A. 2016,” the honor brought some measure of the local attention that had long eluded her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

OpenAI said Tuesday that one of its unreleased artificial intelligence models had solved a mathematical puzzle that has eluded mathematicians for generations, in a claim which also drew a fight with rival researchers over credit.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The hope had been that the drug—called pelacarsen—would take on an insidious cause of heart attacks and strokes that has eluded treatment for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

Sleep eluded me as my brain turned over these questions.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Trailing 28-21 and facing a fourth-and-three on the Bishop Amat 27-yard line, Cloutier zigged and zagged across the field, eluding most of the Lancers’ defense along the way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 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

Matt O'Riley added a third late on, his tame shot eluding George.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024

He could get so intense—throw screaming kicking tantrums when something seemed to be eluding him.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler