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Answer ellipsis refers to a linguistic phenomenon where part of a response is omitted or left out because it can be inferred from the context or from the preceding dialogue. This often occurs in conversational exchanges to avoid redundancy and make communication more efficient. For example, consider the dialogue: Person A: "Do you want to go to the movies?

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