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The next month, Doja declared she would abandon her pop sound for rap, then withdrew her statement, saying the album would be elusively rock.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2023

Our critic calls it “a sophisticated, elusively plotted psychological thriller.”

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2023

“Let’s see if the rumor that is so widespread is confirmed,” Bilbao coach Jose Angel Ziganda said elusively after the match.

From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2018

If you want to find the vision of an elusively prosperous and unified Europe, you have to go to a 19th-century railway station in London, Brexit or no.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2016

A high and fragmentary moon came and went elusively.

From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi