ellipsis

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

Roberts created it with an ellipsis that edited out the actual law and created what can only be seen as a deliberate misapplication of precedent.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025

An ellipsis belongs here, not an empathic period, because Wall stands at the starting line in his journey for wholeness.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022

The exhibition functions more like an ellipsis, an open-ended invitation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

Here we have an adverb, unproblematically, modifying the verb continue, an ellipsis for continue to be.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

“What we do on this show all the time is we look for ellipses in the mythology and then those become great opportunities to hopefully fill in the blanks,” McKay says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

Once you have the app, open the desktop version of Twitter and click on the icon showing ellipses in a circle.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

Take a cone and cut it up; you get circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas, depending on how you slice it.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife