Both Uses
allude
in
The Choice, by Nicholas Sparks
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- The letter didn't allude to anything specific that Gabby had accomplished; it was nothing more than a form letter, something no doubt sent out to a dozen other people who'd started working around the same time she had.†
p. 228.6allude = to make an indirect reference
- Though she had alluded to some problems at the pediatrician's office during their first weekend together, she hadn't been specific.†
p. 228.9 *alluded = indirectly referenced
Definitions:
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(1)
(allude) to make an indirect referenceThe expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)