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Example sentences for: elude

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It is well known that the origins of many words still elude the most determined researchers in etymology, but, taken as a whole, I should imagine that the proportion of idiomatic expressions without confirmed etymologies may be higher than that of words whose provenance has not been established.
Then look to what candidates can offer (skeptically, of course, since the real story may be that these problems elude solutions on the presidential level).
His people would never admit what he was admitting: that the prize he had chased almost all his adult life was bound to elude him in the most humiliating manner.
Despite the plethora of synonyms for it, style continues to elude definitions with finesse.
As a result, generalizations about the nature of the evolution of specialization, and the clarification of the "folk wisdom," may elude us until the mechanisms and tendencies of evolutionary change are better revealed.