elusive
Example Sentences
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The Silicon Valley aura has proven elusive to GM, as it has to other automakers chasing the same strategy.
For me, empathy and that elusive righteousness is about restoring lost dignity.
The stories individually are entertaining, and though the shape of the forest may be elusive, the trees themselves are fascinating.
Where Perpetua can be frustratingly elusive, Augustine is almost too well-known for biography.
Amorim does not know if he will deliver the elusive silverware.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
