ellipsis

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

The game is an ellipsis between moments, running constantly in the background of my life.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2022

The exhibition functions more like an ellipsis, an open-ended invitation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

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

Her sentences end not in periods but in ellipses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024

In the simulations the researchers observed ellipses, triangles and squares.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

Nugent uses ellipses after nearly every phrase, which function both as indication of omission and a break in linear time.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

Once you have the app, open the desktop version of Twitter and click on the icon showing ellipses in a circle.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 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