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
“Oyamada has great fun playing with the idea of elision, building a propulsive narrative of omission and isolation.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2020
One of the first things you notice about Anna Wiener’s Silicon Valley memoir Uncanny Valley is the author’s elegant elision.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2020
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
Epstein reduces millennia of human history to the preindustrial age, and everything after, making some convenient elisions in the process.
From Slate ● May 31, 2022
Any story is a fragile architecture of inclusions and elisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
The alliteration is sometimes obscured by elisions and contractions, but never quite disappears.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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