allusion
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Paz has so far emphasized the need for dialogue but not ruled out using "constitutional instruments" to end the blockade of La Paz -- an allusion to declaring a state of emergency.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
Lego aficionados or those who grew up with the sets will likely spy many an allusion to past toys.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
It is preceded by musings that perhaps a king shouldn’t have the absolute powers he does—which felt like a perfunctory contemporary allusion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
One of the pleasures here is witnessing both actors reanimate the rhythms of a long-ago conversation, their text absent the typical tidiness of a screenplay and instead an interwoven network of inflection, attitude, allusion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
The souvenir pamphlet noted that even a full load of passengers had “no more effect on the movements or the speed than if they were so many flies”—an oddly ungracious allusion.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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