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ellipsis

[ih-lip-sis] / ɪˈlɪp sɪs /


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Though the title jams everybody together in one breathless, unpunctuated rush, this is very much a movie about distance within families; an ellipsis between each word might have been apt.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 24, 2025

He inserted this ellipsis, so the sentence meant the literal opposite of what it had actually said.

From Salon May 16, 2025

Akil laughs when I bring it up: “At any age, that ellipsis will kick your butt.”

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2025

At the renovated and rebranded Center for Brooklyn History, they’re going with an ellipsis.

From New York Times Sep. 15, 2023

Olly: does the ellipsis mean we're having an awkward silence or that you're thinking?

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Her sentences end not in periods but in ellipses.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 4, 2024

The torqued ellipses, quite literally, shifted the axis of Serra’s career: from solid to space, from process to perception, from the artist’s actions to the viewer’s bodily experience.

From New York Times Mar. 28, 2024

Known by his colleagues as the “poet of iron,” Serra became world-renowned for his large-scale steel structures, such as monumental arcs, spirals and ellipses.

From Seattle Times Mar. 26, 2024

In the simulations the researchers observed ellipses, triangles and squares.

From Science Daily Oct. 23, 2023

Kepler’s first two laws may seem a little remote and abstract: planets move in ellipses, and sweep out equal areas in equal times.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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