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

MAK’s exhibition smartly recasts some of these dreamy accounts, which elide some of L.A.’s uglier historical episodes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2022

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

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

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

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

Ausubel elides the technical details, but she’s not wandering entirely in the land of fantasy.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

While the film elides a slew of minor characters and subplots, Murray’s omnivorous fascination is a counterpoint to Jack’s increasingly grim self-involvement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 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

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

Letters commonly occurring together were elided and abbreviated, as was done to a limited extent as late as the 18th century, at which period we see such abbreviations as yt=that.

From Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton

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

Family members had lived through the Armenian genocide, and she grew up with an awareness that historically grand narratives have a way of eliding certain events.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 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

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