elide

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

The problems with the analogy were evident from the lengths Ely went to to elide them.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2023

In fact, the day-to-day operations of many galleries are built around more banal forms of excess that elide easy parody but are equally pernicious.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

One could of course adopt the term ‘progressivist’, but that would elide all the difficulties that are associated with the idea of progress.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Mr. Berger elides this first burst of violence, I think wisely, the better to contrast the noble Titus of the play’s beginnings with the vengeful man he becomes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

And though Rivera is perhaps best known for shooting L.A.’s queer Latino underground, he elides any simplistic categorizations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

This theory elides the structural disadvantages of Detroit and other cities, but that doesn’t mean that voters won’t subscribe to it.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2024

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 announcement elided answers to any number of questions.

From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2024

What concerned us then was the way workers were being elided from history and their exploitation made to magically disappear.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2023

The social changes which have so markedly affected marriage have no more elided marriage than the vast changes which have come over the home portend its dissolution.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Stephen Wise

For a memoirist, Mr. Lemann remains ambivalent about self-revelation, eliding his professional accomplishments and any emotional upheavals along the way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

“Self-taught” is also a euphemism, one eliding the structural reasons why an artist might have gone without formal education.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

"TikTok videos. We've got a lot of TikTok videos," Ingrahm responded, eliding any context.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2021

I don’t think a 53-year-old mother is a vulnerable or inexperienced young adult, and I think you can drop the “girl” from “girl/woman” without worrying you’re eliding some serious imbalance of power.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2020

Milton restored the lost syllable, often eliding the final vowel, as in Exile, or ignominy, or bonds, or pain.

From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by John Sargeaunt