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ellipsis

[ih-lip-sis] / ɪˈlɪp sɪs /


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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

Roberts created it with an ellipsis that edited out the actual law and created what can only be seen as a deliberate misapplication of precedent.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 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

It is used as you might use an ellipsis when haggling with a dude on Craigslist about the price of his used NordicTrack and you’re still 15 bucks apart.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2022

He ended with an almost Shakespearean ellipsis: “Our business now is north.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Hide location: To temporarily shield your location without notifying them, go to Find My > People, select a contact, tap the ellipses and choose Hide Location.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

The torqued ellipses, quite literally, shifted the axis of Serra’s career: from solid to space, from process to perception, from the artist’s actions to the viewer’s bodily experience.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

Johannes Kepler, the man who discovered that planets travel in ellipses, took this idea—the infinitely distant point—one step further.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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