allusion
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An intentional allusion wouldn’t be unprecedented for the administration.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Mr. Macfarlane’s Norwegian allusion typifies this feast of a book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The cat’s “puppy-like confidence” is as close as Jill gets to any canine allusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
Speaking to the theatrical experience, Spielberg made a brief allusion to the flare-up around comments by Timothée Chalamet regarding the popularity of opera and ballet in relation to the movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
The fog cleared as suddenly as it had appeared and yet nobody made any allusion to it, nor did anybody look as though anything unusual had just happened.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
“For generations, it provided a common stock of references and allusions, rivaled only by Shakespeare in this respect,” the late writer Christopher Hitchens wrote in a 2011 essay on the King James Version.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
And he has done so with a light-fingered insouciance that makes every scene incandescent with funny contemporary allusions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
Sports fans, however, will find specific allusions, like contentious press conferences and even the kiss cam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
"It touched on so much in terms of thematic material and musical material," Kehrer said, pointing to the allusions to decolonization and use of traditional Puerto Rican rhythms.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
The discussion of Mr. Collins’s offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally from some peevish allusions of her mother.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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