elide

If he could elide and overlook his past disasters, the city would follow the same path—right?

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2025

But this kind of ludicrous fantasy allows Hegseth to elide the deep paradox of his argument.

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024

Critics have concluded, absolutely correctly, that this provision serves to elide the manifold horrors of slavery by searching out its good side.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

These shows elide the logistical and cost concerns associated with telling a new story from scratch by falling back on a prefabricated narrative.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2022

He was keen to elide the differences between ancient Rome and his own London, as well as those between Verona and Canterbury.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But she elides the evidence that college-educated fathers spend far more time with their children than men did a generation ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

This matter-of-fact description of how Dingell lost his gavel is Pelosi, and much of her book, in a nutshell, in how it elides the grisly details.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2024

The play elides Court’s winning record over King.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

Kushner, of course, conveniently elides the fact that this unusual access was primarily the inevitable result of his marriage to the president’s daughter.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022

To us, the sound of the horn elides from high frequencies to low.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Such abundance makes the job of a critic difficult: For every artist and presentation that gets singled out there are several others that are elided due to space constraints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

"When a wrongful conviction occurs, it is, in the end, because they said so. All too often, the responsibility of judges for producing and maintaining wrongful convictions gets neglected, elided, and ignored."

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024

The more public figures guilty of similar acts—Tommy Robinson, Douglas Murray, Andrew Tate—have elided such prosecution, however.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2024

He evaded questions and elided answers, and showed all the grace and gratitude of a kindergartner who pees in a sandbox and expects others to clean up the mess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2024

Tishy elided the absurd figure of speech and ignored it.

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan

What’s more, she respects her subject without eliding his narcissism or disingenuity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

The transitions eschew title cards, subtly eliding shifts by returning to images of Jane in her car.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

This framing is anything but compassionate: In eliding adoption’s painful complexities, it could lead us to callously repeat the damaging mistakes of the past.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2021

Instead of eliding that conversation, the writers step into the center of it.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2020

There has come into fashion a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing facts and all gloomy questions.

From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood