How to Use elision in a Sentence

elision

noun
  • The elision of the line between the dead and the living is a hallmark of Ward’s work.
    — Imani Perry, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The British have raised elision to a whimsical art form.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Payne’s omissions and elisions turn out to be more than just a matter of the current events of 1970.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But the elision of bird-birder-birding somehow touched the beyond, and birding is now the word of choice....
    — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 17 May 2019
  • In that pursuit, Clark crafts a response in proportion to the elision.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • This elision strengthens rather than weakens the film's central theme of faith.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2017
  • But Faber’s tale of alpha-elision follows its own course.
    — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Opacity and elision are the rules rather than the exception.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The history of slavery is one of elisions and silences, of moving on.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The elision of freedom with lawlessness was an easy one to make, and one that Xi’s party still makes today.
    — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Readers may have noticed a slight elision in my May 30 column on these matters.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • Certainly, there is a bit of elision here: Litt, a white male Ivy League graduate, is not quite the zero his comedic/fairy-tale setup needs him to be.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Whatever its causes in the real world, the elision in the book is an unforgivable flaw, a black hole at its center.
    — Randy Rosenthal, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
  • Such elisions may be understandable, but the hearings are over.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • But the magnetism of these books derives not from its mountain of facts but from its elisions — all those gaps in our knowledge and understanding.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • While the nature of adaptation requires compression and elision, the film dutifully tells the story that fans of the book will turn out to see brought to life on the big screen.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • These elisions can be frustrating, despite the book’s many pleasures.
    — Jacob Brogan, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • This often takes years, but Thunberg might not need as much time—the necessary elisions have already begun.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • One of those elisions is the name of the online outlet to which Winner sent the incriminating article.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
  • In all wunderkammer, there are convenient elisions: of the wealth that built them, of the creators behind the objects, of how these items ended up in European hands.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Like the best liars, Trump and his team pair gratuitous revelations with strategic elisions.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
  • Those records should be available to the public, the way that Lumen’s records of copyright takedowns in Google search are, unless that very availability defeats the purpose of the elision.
    — Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic, 30 June 2021
  • Still, her assumptions and elisions are striking, if predictable.
    — Greg Jackson, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Because Okuyama constructs the film like a memory, some elision and obliqueness are to be expected.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
  • Would the elision of the difference between hating debt and hating Jews found in the shooter’s manifesto be present in the cultural impact of Ramsey’s teachings?
    — Eve Ettinger, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Sam believed that the war in Gaza had exposed the contradictions, elisions, and hypocrisy of American institutions—not only the government and academia but the press.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
  • But the surprising elisions work to exaggerate Bonnie and Jim’s circumstances, putting dents in Vance’s version of their plucky, up-by-the-bootstraps story.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2024
  • As a result of these elisions, the film feels less like a documentary than like a work of abstract expressionism, yet much beauty can be found in Russell's approach.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 5 June 2018
  • The author points to the elision from beer as a white Germanophone preserve to the embodiment of the newly independent Namibian nation after 1990.
    — Paul Nugent, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2021
  • These two work by means of elision and ellipsis, unfolding in sections separated by roughly 20 years.
    — Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024

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