illusive

Example Sentences

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“Measuring the effect of those campaigns is often illusive.”

From Reuters

Donald H. Whitehead Jr., executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless advocacy group, said in an email that such statistics can prove “illusive.”

From Washington Post

And what of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the most illusive and therefore most interesting of the philosophical wizards?

From New York Times

That illusive classic, the perfect white shirt is, she concedes, hard to find secondhand, because they are often a bit stained.

From The Guardian

The illusive and enigmatic pageant of color generated by butterfly wings arises, in part, from the way the tiny scales covering the wings play tricks with and manipulate light, while also functioning as optical filters.

From Washington Post