extremely elusive

Frequency: 7.09.2 per million words

To a very high degree; very difficult to find or achieve.

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Examples (10)

  • The snow leopard is an extremely elusive creature, rarely seen by humans.
  • For many people, true inner peace remains an extremely elusive goal.
  • The source of the system crash proved to be extremely elusive for the engineers.
  • The meaning of the ancient text has been extremely elusive, puzzling scholars for centuries.
  • That butterfly, with its unique pattern, is extremely elusive and hard to photograph.
  • He spent his life chasing the extremely elusive dream of becoming a famous actor.
  • A definitive cure for the common cold has proven extremely elusive to scientists.
  • The villain in the novel was extremely elusive, always one step ahead of the detective.
  • Finding a consensus on this controversial topic is an extremely elusive objective.
  • The specific memory of his first day at school was extremely elusive to him.