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elision

[ih-lizh-uhn] / ɪˈlɪʒ ən /




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That’s indicative of a problem throughout “Skinfolk” — Guterl chooses elision over concrete depiction in the memoir’s hardest moments.

From New York Times Mar. 28, 2023

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

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

What are the contradictions and elisions that emerge?

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 8, 2022

Stoppard’s early life was defined by a series of escapes, and those escapes led to elisions.

From New York Times Sep. 7, 2022

There were still elisions, questions answered with a half-phrase, comments added with a disconnected word and replied in another word that—in cold print—would appear to have no bearing on the original subject.

From The Fourth R by George Oliver Smith




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