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View synonyms for eluded

eluded

[ ih-loo-did ]

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of elude.


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His shock declaration was, in fact, a bid to get the kind of grip on power that has eluded him since he won the presidency in 2022 by the slimmest margin in South Korea's history.

From BBC

The Trojans looked, as of early June, to be headed in an elite direction on the recruiting trail, marching toward the sort of rarefied air that had recently eluded Riley.

Still, he's far from perfect, and there's one recent celebrity whose voice has eluded him.

From Salon

The nature of dark matter has eluded astronomers for 90 years, since the realization that 85% of the matter in the universe is not visible through our telescopes.

Roughly 4% of the population is affected by a congenital brain malformation that has eluded researchers' efforts to find causes and treatments.

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