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
In the premiere, the drama revolves around the dreaded disappearing ellipsis — that feeling when you can see someone typing and then it stops.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
His comedic rhythm feels like a throwback, with a lot of zingers and jokes that rely on audience laughter as a sort of ellipsis between punchlines.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
Tracing toward it from the north was a long ellipsis of puffy white dots: the smoky breath of a train.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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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
He talks in ellipses and apologises several times for rambling - but there's an obvious affection for Pavement and its fans.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2022
This was the beginning of the discipline of projective geometry, where mathematicians look at the shadows and projections of geometric figures to uncover hidden truths even more powerful than the equivalence of parabolas and ellipses.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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