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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

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

I wrote, as an accompanying caption, “The Star Wars/Le Creuset pots imply the existence of a Type of Guy I find genuinely unimaginable...” — just like that, ellipsis and all.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

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

“What we do on this show all the time is we look for ellipses in the mythology and then those become great opportunities to hopefully fill in the blanks,” McKay says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024

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

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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