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He alluded to Susan without mentioning her name.alluded = indirectly referenced
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She didn't mention any names, but everyone knew she was alluding to the President.alluding = indirectly referring
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Where she cannot make a point with logic, she uses allusion.allusion = indirect reference
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As I've been alluding to, my one saving grace is distraction. (source)alluding = indirectly referring
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Halliday was alluding to a famous '70s hacker named John Draper, better known by the alias Captain Crunch. (source)alluding = making an indirect reference
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In 1973, Bill posted an enigmatic letter alluding vaguely to plans for an extended trip and then disappeared without a trace; to this day nobody knows what became of him. (source)
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The Japanese military, he said, provides women for its soldiers, an allusion to the thousands of Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, and Filipino women whom the Japanese military had kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery. (source)allusion = indirect referencestandard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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He alluded to last night only by asking how Phineas was; I said he seemed to be in good spirits. (source)alluded = indirectly referenced
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Her allusions to her son were few and... (source)allusions = indirect referencesstandard suffix: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.
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You can allude to Fulke Greville, but you'd have to provide your own footnotes. (source)allude = indirectly reference
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He saw me and crossed the room, and we made small talk for several minutes, neither of us acknowledging that we hadn't seen each other in half a decade, neither of us alluding to why. (source)alluding = indirectly referring
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I should like to know who they are...[Alludes to CHARACTERS].† (source)Alludes = makes an indirect reference
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Nor did one need a background in symbolism to understand that Snow White—a princess who fell from grace after partaking of a poisoned apple—was a clear allusion to the downfall of Eve in the Garden of Eden. (source)allusion = indirect reference
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We had talked around him, alluded to him without quite mentioning him. (source)alluded = indirectly referred
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Knowing of Mr. Odom's precarious financial situation, I was not surprised that he made several allusions to the fact that everything in the house was for sale—carpets, paintings, furniture, bric-a-brac.† (source)allusions = indirect references
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Do you allude to me, Miss Cardew, as an entanglement? (source)allude = to make an indirect reference
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