elision
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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
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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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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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