elision
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Whatever its causes in the real world, the elision in the book is an unforgivable flaw, a black hole at its center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2022
The May 11 KidsPost article “How to be daring on Eat What You Want Day” contained an amazing elision.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022
The elision of Shelby’s private life is a sleight of hand that obscures, above all, the complexity of life—it suggests a sheer unwillingness to contend with facts that don’t easily fit into a sentimental schema.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2019
The most notable elision is that of Rodriguez’s long-serving real-world chief of staff, Gina Haspel, who is now Trump’s CIA director.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2019
This rather deliberate elision of Fermi’s role in neutron research was the prelude to a pitch for $2,250 “to increase the yield of neutron radiation tenfold or more.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
It’s frank, intimate, poetic in its elisions and profoundly haunting in its effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
But especially as the book progresses, the authors slip into cursory rewrites of well-known history and other elisions that, while sometimes small, nevertheless undermine their credibility.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023
What are the contradictions and elisions that emerge?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Those who’ve read Furukawa’s novel, which doesn’t seem to have been translated into English, may have no issue tracking the movie’s labyrinthine turns, its time shifts, storytelling elisions and fantastical flourishes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
When Cousin Giles was excited he made elisions of speech rather unusual for a Boston man.
From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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