allusive
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The result is allusive, ambitious, occasionally frustrating, often exhilarating.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
F1 drivers generally don't talk about this stuff, and if they do it tends to be in an allusive manner that tries to hide any weaknesses.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025
“Elastigirl” riffed off Ciara’s “Oh,” as did “Rockstar” for M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls,” allusive moves that might be hack if she wasn’t so expert at it.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2025
Some scholars have compared “Macunaíma” to James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” another totemic modernist novel from the 1920s whose allusive, wide-ranging play with language is as central to its identity as its plot.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023
The story told by myxotricha is as deep as any myth, as profoundly allusive.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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