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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

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

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

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

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

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

Hort refers it to a grammatical rule not to end a line with οὐκ or οὐχ, or a consonant preceding an elided vowel, as ἀπ᾽, οὐδ᾽.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

He also dug up an archaic definition of “facility” from an old law dictionary, eliding key context that limited this idiosyncratic usage to railroads at the turn of the 20th century.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2023

Instead of fudging or eliding the vertical joins, he emphasized them, creating multi-paneled photographs where figures or parts of figures are visibly duplicated.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2023

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

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2020

But surely I shall admit the vulgarity of slurring or altogether eliding certain terminal consonants?

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell