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allude

[uh-lood] / əˈlud /


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She faces in the opposite direction of “Femme,” but the shape of her face and pointed nose, and the way her large hat exceeds the picture frame, allude to Matisse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

“Mine,” in this sense, doesn’t simply allude to something Corvette will steal; she’s referring to all the invisible things that comprise a mass-produced product — the labor and energy and time.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

Just every now and then, Ruth would allude to it.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

But independent investment research provider Variant Perception alludes to a looming shift in market psyche as they reckon “the next couple of days will mark ‘peak uncertainty’ about the Iran war.”

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 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

They’re helped out by credulous writers who’ve alluded to vague, anonymized conversations with people in the Bay Area about the same 10 percent probability of imminent extinction for a while now.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

As Iraola alluded to after, perhaps one of his players should have had the know how to commit a foul in that situation but Liverpool were punished again.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

He alluded to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, who have called for tighter controls on the technology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

As Musk alluded to, if SpaceX hands out compute like candy, then things could get tight.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026

To the continuing exasperation of his fellow scientists, he often alluded in published work to the results of contingent experiments that he had not told anyone about.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

Mr. Peters was alluding to a similar fiscal trick, which is resulting in more than half a trillion dollars in higher Medicare costs for seniors and taxpayers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

"It's difficult - there are a lot of Ukrianian drones there," Zelensky quipped, alluding to Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Moscow.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

"Right now, you don't feel like people here have been fairly paid," he said, alluding to miners often earning less than $200 a month at the operations already extracting resources in the area.

From Barron's

He saw me and crossed the room, and we made small talk for several minutes, neither of us acknowledging that we hadn’t seen each other in half a decade, neither of us alluding to why.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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