elide
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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
They needed to preserve the essential meaning of each element of the show, but also elide some of the more arcane details, and they needed to echo the musicality of the language.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
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
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
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
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 announcement elided answers to any number of questions.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2024
In both cases, he elided inconvenient facts and oversimplified complex systems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
The "elles" here would not scan but for the elided "e" in "souv'raine" at the end of the line.
From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Hilaire Belloc
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
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
The organization’s current incarnation, after a fraud investigation, as I Ching Systems and Artworks, invites contemplation as an aesthetic practice, even as its intent is less art world aspiration than eliding F.D.A. scrutiny.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Instead of eliding that conversation, the writers step into the center of it.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2020
She had this way of rushing subjects, eliding the obvious, and relying on her hearers.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
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