elision

The woman is Ruhaba Khan, a Pakistani law professor whose voice comes to us only in her emails — an intriguing elision not unlike the titular character’s from “Lolita.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

While the nature of adaptation requires compression and elision, the film dutifully tells the story that fans of the book will turn out to see brought to life on the big screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 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

Late in Uncanny Valley, Wiener seems to make a specific argument about her adventures in 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

The movie involves tweaks and elisions to history, of course.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

This notion of time as both fixed and fluid extends into the mechanics of the collection: the line breaks, elisions and susurrations, the position of the words on the page.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

But belief often requires a leap of faith, or in this case, a set of elisions, some false equivalencies, and a few fatuities, all of which make this book hopelessly muddled.

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2023

She scarcely sounded the t in Kentucky, since she also was of the South, where the languid air tends to produce elisions.

From The Debtor A Novel by William Dodge Stevens