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allude

[uh-lood] / əˈlud /


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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

Although that project was scrapped, Variety magazine said the second season of The Studio will allude to the attempts to bring Madonna's story to the big screen.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

If a divorced lady were present in the company of her second husband, it is often thought desirable not to allude to the original marriage at all.

From "The Remains of the Day" 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

The title of Ryan Effgen’s appealing debut novel, “Make Nice,” alludes to the pet exhortation of dear old mom; it’s what she hoped for from her offspring at this five-day reunion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

The phrase subtly alludes to another meditation on unrealized genius, “Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,” from Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

The IMF pointed to the unsettled nature of the Mideast conflict and also alluded to a possible backlash against artificial intelligence that damages stock markets.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

He wrote Odes in honor of the victors in the games at the great national festivals of Greece, and in every one of his poems myths are told or alluded to.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

"There's a limit to what companies can absorb," Rainey told CNBC, alluding to the $2 billion impact.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Next to me, Emmy whispered as the movie began, “They look even better than I imagined,” alluding to my bangs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

On Monday night, without directly alluding to Skubal, Brewers general manager Matt Arnold said that, “There was some stuff that we considered that was pretty irresponsible.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

She decided to share a video online and many women contacted her with similar stories, alluding that this is a wider issue throughout Northern Ireland.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

She fed me without alluding to my poverty, and from then on I continued to visit her.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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