more elusive
Example Sentences
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But now with the suspension of the agency managing these dollars, realizing a contract feels even more elusive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The closer you look the more elusive the actual definition is.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Or is it something more elusive: the felt quality of being, the fact that there is something it is like to be you at all?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
A pause now looks increasingly probable, and consensus is more elusive than ever.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
In some ways the story made less sense each time he read it, the scenes he pictured so vividly, and absorbed so fully, growing more elusive and profound.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
