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"elusive difference" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means a difference that is difficult to understand or pin down. Example: Despite hours of analyzing the data, the researchers were still unable to identify the elusive difference between the two groups.
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Furthermore, there is a slightly elusive difference between A i and B: it seems that A1 and A2 are directly involved in creating new A1 and A2 entities, while B has only an indirect effect on the formation of new Bs.
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I kept trying to put my finger on it, to find a phrase to capture the elusive qualitative difference between these scare tactics and those of political operatives past.
Converging evidence from applications of the method across various outcome-based composites will eventually help us arrive at a consensus regarding the best set of facets for representing established, yet still partially elusive, individual-differences constructs.
True prevalence rates of interpersonal violence is remain elusive, given differences in definitions and types of violence, as well as variations across studies in design, timing of assessment, period versus point prevalence estimates, and under-reporting of incidences of violence [ 5].
It remains elusive whether the difference in survival is related to the preferential methylation in E-cadherin in different histological subtypes of cancer.
Moreover, a mechanism is elusive because the differences in gut microbiota do not seem to be strongly and consistently linked to differences in, for example, the efficiency of digestion (a potential route by which gut bacteria might have their impact).
For anyone who has ever wondered what conductors actually do up there on the podium, and what possible difference their elusive semaphore makes to a huge group of musicians, here is incontrovertible proof: the orchestra has discovered, through Abbado, a new level of intensity and expression.
Maize helitrons are clearly unique relative to those of rice and Arabidopsis in the prevalence of gene capture, but the reasons for this difference remain elusive.
A simple explanation for this gender difference is elusive but may relate to dissimilar hormonal and immune responses to injury and inflammation in the presence of gluten introduction during early childhood; related gender differences have been observed in other immune system-mediated disorders.
Lifespan is a remarkably diverse trait ranging from a few days to several hundred years in nature, but the mechanisms underlying the evolution of lifespan differences remain elusive.
Despite recent efforts to dissect the inter-tumor heterogeneity of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) by determining prognosis-predictive gene expression signatures for specific subtypes, their functional differences remain elusive.
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