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elision

[ih-lizh-uhn] / ɪˈlɪʒ ən /




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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

And in an Ozu-ian elision of what other directors might consider essential, the groom disappears from the remaining half-hour, going through with a scheduled departure for northern Japan.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020

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

The movie involves tweaks and elisions to history, of course.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

This notion of time as both fixed and fluid extends into the mechanics of the collection: the line breaks, elisions and susurrations, the position of the words on the page.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

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

I have done my best to string the fragments together into one connected whole, only making such insertions, elisions and alterations as appeared strictly necessary.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller




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