Example Sentences

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“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

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

Thus, Kepler’s point at infinity proved that parabolas and ellipses are actually the same thing.

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