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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "2002, Meshuggah, Closed Eye Visuals:",
"text": "The temporary elusive goal / To reach the solace, to feed once more upon the synthetic reaper of loss / No matter the outcome, the cost",
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"Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance."
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"ref": "2010, Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease:",
"text": "A precise definition of diarrhea is elusive",
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},
{
"ref": "1910, Jack London, chapter 6, in Lost Face, archived from the original on 2011-04-14:",
"text": "Charley chased the elusive idea through all the nooks and crannies of his drowning consciousness.",
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}
],
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"Difficult to make precise."
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{
"ref": "2002, Scott Roederer, Birding: Rocky Mountain National Park, page 93:",
"text": "While you're sniffing the trunks of the ponderosas to see if they're butterscotch, vanilla, strawberry, or the elusive chocolate variety, watch for Brown Creepers, an elusive variety of bird.",
"type": "quote"
}
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[
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"rarely"
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[
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
{
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪˈl(j)u.sɪv/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/iˈl(j)u.sɪv/",
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"US"
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},
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"word": "elusory"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mutamalliṣ",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "متملص"
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"code": "ar",
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"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neulovim",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "неуловим"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izplǎzvašt se",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "изплъзващ се"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "elusiu"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "nepolapitelný"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "ongrijpbaar"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "nekaptebla"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "puiklik"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "välttelevä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "vaikeasti tavoiteltava"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "hämärä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "évasif"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "insaisissable"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "rare"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "flüchtig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "schwer fassbar"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "asýlliptos",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "ασύλληπτος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fevgaléos",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "φευγαλέος"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "ẖamaqmáq",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "חֲמַקְמָק"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "nekaptebla"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elusivo"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "fugāx"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "گریزان"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "فراری"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "marmuz",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "مرموز"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nieuchwytny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "elusivo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "fugidio"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "evaziv"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "neulovimyj",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "неуловимый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uskolʹzajuščij",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "ускользающий"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "lukav"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "prepreden"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "neuhvatljiv"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "elusivo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "huidizo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "escurridizo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "esquivo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "inaprensible"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "evading capture, comprehension or remembrance",
"word": "gäckande"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "nányǐmiáoshùdē",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"tags": [
"Mandarin"
],
"word": "难以描述的"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "Nányǐzhuōmō",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "难以捉摸"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "Nányǐzhuómó",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "难以琢磨"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "moeilijk beschrijfbaar"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "ebamäärane"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "vaikeasti kuvailtava"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "vaikea kuvailla"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "ambigu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "obscur"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "schwierig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "schwer fassbar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "schwer zu beschreiben"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "nieuchwytny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "elusivo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "trudnodostižimyj",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "труднодостижимый"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "impreciso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "inexacto"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "indefinible"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "difficult to describe",
"word": "ambiguo"
}
],
"word": "elusive"
}
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