elide

Their posture of complaint allows them to elide some pretty serious differences.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025

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 director’s “inspired idea of showing the very thing that most movies either ignore or awkwardly elide — the passage of time — is its impressive, headline-making conceit,” she added.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

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

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

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

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

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

Traditional meals so automatically include it that when former President Nicolas Sarkozy elided the cheese course from official state lunches, citizens were outraged.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2023

The brogue, the northern drawl, the London twang, the elided g's or the uncertain h's, had each their several and distinct fascination.

From Caught by the Turks by Francis Yeats-Brown

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

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

The past-present parallelism is provocative, but it also seems faintly superficial — a way of eliding distinctions and streamlining history.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 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