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Meanings of as elusive in English

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Usage of as elusive in English
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Beauty can be as elusive as stormy weather in the high ranges.
Rock and Ice Magazine
2
The hindsight of biography is as elusive and deductive as long-range forecasting.
Fugitive pieces
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The killer remains as elusive as the murder weapon and the motive.
The Irish Times
4
The black unicorn seemed as elusive as smoke and about as substantive.
The Black Unicorn
5
Floyd Mayweather is as elusive in victory as he can be in combat.
The Guardian
6
A vague thought, as elusive as the smell of a primrose
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
7
His speeches were as elusive and illusive as they were smooth and graceful.
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 / From Lincoln to Garfield, w...
8
She mostly worked at night and was as elusive as smoke.
Hard eight
9
Monetary utopia, John Law would be amazed to see, remains as elusive as ever.
Millionaire: the philanderer, gambler, and duelist who invented ...
10
Attitudes of mind are as elusive as the play of light on running water.
Modern Religious Cults and Movements
11
And here she was, every bit as elusive a beauty as her photograph promised.
Complete Books of Blood
12
She drives me to distraction, as elusive as she is.
Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
13
Which might be the best we can hope for, transparency being as elusive as truth.
A place of my own: the architecture of daydreams
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A lover who can provide sincere support may be as elusive as a true friend.
Ebony
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But the words he searched for would not come, as elusive as the sylph herself.
The Black Unicorn
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The spellbinding qualities the evangelists of VR promised us, however, are as elusive as vaporware.
Wired
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Ireland
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United Kingdom
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