allude
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To allude to Frank Sinatra, you did it your way.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
In a statement Tuesday that didn’t allude to the suspended deliveries, the Central Bank of Iraq said it wasn’t short of U.S. currency.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
The show is, in fact, billed as being only "mostly" based on real events, and the writer and cast allude to a "twist".
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
The score goes on for the next hour to allude to a surreal emptiness.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
If she decided someone should be expelled, for example, and she sensed opposition, she’d just allude darkly to stuff she knew “from before.”
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vocabulary lists containing allude
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 1
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The ACT: The Language of the Test, List 1
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