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allude to

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allude to someone/something
to refer to someone or something briefly or indirectly. In his letter, Dick alluded to problems the company was facing, but he never suggested they were going out of business.
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The death of my Parents a few weeks after my Departure, is the circumstance I allude to.
Love and Friendship by Austen, Jane View in context
And he shut up any of his thoughtless comrades who attempted to allude to his connection.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
She sang him his favorite songs, showed him her album, making him write in it, did not allow him to allude to the past, letting it be understood how was the present; and every day he went away in a fog, without having said what he meant to, and not knowing what he was doing or why he came, or how it would all end.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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