elisions
- plural of elision.
Example Sentences
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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
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
What are the contradictions and elisions that emerge?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022
The dialect is laconic and yet rambling, full of repetitions, and abounding in curious elisions, that give an unexpected quaintness to the simplest statements.
From Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation by Harris, Joel Chandler
