elude

Example Sentences

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Ice dancers Evan Bates and Madison Chock are three-time defending world champions who return to their fourth — and likely final — Olympics together poised to earn the only individual medal that has eluded them.

From Los Angeles Times

To elude the exam panic around me, I avoided my schoolmates and stuck to Bright, little suspecting it was he of all people who would shatter my peace.

From Literature

Now they are targeting the Olympic title that has so far eluded them, although they came mightily close in 2022, losing to Sweden in the gold medal match.

From BBC

On the earnings call, CEO Alex Karp attributed Palantir’s success to the company’s ability to effectively deliver value from AI, a feat that he said has eluded much of the software sector thus far.

From MarketWatch

"So far, we know that these wolves are consuming sea otters," he says, "and we're now staged to capture the details that have previously eluded us."

From Science Daily