elliptic

Mulaney referred to the fires elliptically when discussing last year's Los Angeles series.

During a Pittsburgh stop earlier this month, Biden spoke elliptically about Trump’s trial, betting his audience was already in on the joke.

It’s also one of a number of movies that, by turns bluntly and elliptically, either focus on young people or on adults grappling with childhood in some manner.

Set in contemporary Beijing, the story emerges elliptically, as does Gu Wentong.

The conjecture would also settle some open questions in number theory and could become an important tool in the field—especially when combined with the concept of elliptic curves.