illusive
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Why are people so enraptured by the illusive near-impossible-to-win prize?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2024
The Americans are not naive about the chances of achieving the most illusive of goals in the Middle East, amid some of the worst bloodshed in the region's modern history.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024
Officials, lawmakers and victims groups have grown frustrated that an explanation remains illusive.
From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2022
Aoun said that the Salameh brothers and a Ukrainian citizen had formed three illusive companies in France to buy property there.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2022
There were no shadows under the trees but everywhere a pearly stillness, so that what was real seemed illusive and without definition.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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Lord of the Flies
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