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Examples

  • Onde very important book on him is in French, Dictionnaire Lacan, by Jean-Pierre Cléro, Paris, Ellipses, 2008.

    J.M Coetzee Deconstructed 2009

  • Ellipses are awesome and make up way too much of my prose.

    You might be a writer if. . . « 2010

  • Ellipses are not necessary to convey this idea, though they can serve to underline it.

    Notes on the plain style 2008

  • Ellipses may be habit-forming, so a little discipline will be required to finish some thoughts with a full stop, since these will seem rather definitive or blunt by comparison.

    Notes on the plain style 2008

  • I spent a chunk of time trying to find out basic chainline specs on a Mavic wheelset yes, I have a set of Ellipses and yes, I finally found a way to get the f'in lockring to snug up...

    Round and Round: Wheel in the Sky Keeps On Failing BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Ellipses are three dots that help us condense quotations or illustrate pauses.

    English Punctuation: Ellipses « English Punctuation Videos « Videos « Literacy News 2009

  • And I went to Dia: Beacon, which is close to where I live, a beautiful installation, contemporary-art installation museum, and did a lot of walking around, specifically Richard Serra's "Torque Ellipses" which are very meditative and modern.

    Dar Williams: Time, Tides And Empty Spaces 2008

  • In Psalms, we see some passages are written with missing words for us to fill in as we wish in an Ellipses style.

    John 14:6 2008

  • It weighs even more than the "Torqued Ellipses" -- which constitute most of the exhibition and check in at 30 to 40 tons each.

    Talent Pool 2008

  • Ellipses in phase space — curves of constant energy — then become isomorphism classes, because the oscillator motion is periodic, and for any A and B connected by a morphism, you can find another time evolution which takes B back into A.

    Arrow of Time FAQ Sean 2007

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