elision

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But even storytellers of a more prosaic bent could learn something from Jackson’s gift for narrative elision and economy, her insistence on the primacy of the visual and her sparing use of music.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2023

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

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