elusive
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The problem is that a breakthrough has proved elusive during the tension-filled period.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Olympia, his elusive love and sporadic muse, flits in and out of his life as she works her way up the tiers of the art world’s ziggurat.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Developments in the Gulf region suggest Israel has reached a cease-fire agreement with Lebanon, but a similar extension of the fragile truce between the U.S. and Iran remains elusive.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
By carefully arranging tiny particles of silver into custom-built structures, they created and stabilized a previously elusive state of matter that had existed only in theoretical models.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
She tiptoed her mind around the whole subject and back to an elusive thing that peeped out and then withdrew.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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