ellipsis
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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
He inserted this ellipsis, so the sentence meant the literal opposite of what it had actually said.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
Akil laughs when I bring it up: “At any age, that ellipsis will kick your butt.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 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
Olly: does the ellipsis mean we're having an awkward silence or that you're thinking?
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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Not to give anything away, but anyone who’s survived their youth will understand that the title is ironic — or, with Blume’s ellipses, reattached for the title of the final episode, at least inconclusive.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
Known by his colleagues as the “poet of iron,” Serra became world-renowned for his large-scale steel structures, such as monumental arcs, spirals and ellipses.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
In the simulations the researchers observed ellipses, triangles and squares.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023
Rather than attempt to convey that significance in its full sweep, Chukwu condenses it into meaningful details, fugitive moments, tranquil ellipses, explosive gestures and, especially, the face of one woman in joy and in agony.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
As far as Kepler was concerned, elliptical orbits were merely an ad hoc hypothesis, and a rather repugnant one at that, because ellipses were clearly less perfect than circles.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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