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

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024

She also came to realize everything monuments could distort and elide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

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

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2023

This served to elide the question of how much he was working at all.

From The Verge ● Nov. 29, 2021

In letters that were passionate and practical by turns, they did whatever they could to elide the miles between them.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

On an even darker note, a dad uses his Google Pixel’s A.I. feature to talk about the joys of raising children, and somehow the severe dystopian motifs of this premise completely elides the company.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2025

Later in his non-resignation letter he called himself a victim of cancel culture and compared himself to the singer Lizzo, a comparison that elides the different responsibilities that pop stars and elected officials shoulder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

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

I don’t know how much time has passed when the thumping stops and the tray elides back.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

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

At times a vowel is elided; or rather but faintly touched by the voice.

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

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

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

So when students, spotting Solomon’s wedding ring, asked for her husband’s name, she laughed it off with an eliding joke.

From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022

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 Hapgood, Isabel Florence