as in deletion
something left out
unfortunately, when the book was condensed, some of the elisions rendered major plot developments incomprehensible
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Recent Examples of elision
And Henry’s brilliant at that—using the right hundred-dollar word there, and being slightly charming here, and a slight elision there.
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Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
8 Dec. 2025
Her lyrics, riddled with em-dashes and elisions, seem to map her spontaneous neural firing.
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Pitchfork,
2 Dec. 2025
Overweening expressions of ‘good’ taste often give rise to myopic elisions between public and private identities.
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Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
The contents of each article have not been rearranged, however, and all elisions have been clearly marked.
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Foreign Affairs,
18 Dec. 2011
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Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
8 Dec. 2025
Her lyrics, riddled with em-dashes and elisions, seem to map her spontaneous neural firing.
—
Pitchfork,
2 Dec. 2025
Overweening expressions of ‘good’ taste often give rise to myopic elisions between public and private identities.
—
Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
The contents of each article have not been rearranged, however, and all elisions have been clearly marked.
—
Foreign Affairs,
18 Dec. 2011
See All Example Sentences for elision
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elision
Noun
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My company contact says the developers are looking to include secure deletion in the next version.
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Enrico Cappellini, a senior author of the new study and a professor of paleoproteomics at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, said the deletion of the entire gene had been observed in some living male humans and even in the DNA of a Neanderthal male.
Noun
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The omissions come after announcements by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin earlier this year that his agency was designating microplastics and pharmaceuticals priority contaminants for testing.
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Carriers including Berkley have filed sweeping AI exclusions for directors-and-officers, errors-and-omissions and fiduciary coverage.
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“Elision.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elision. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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