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

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

The emotional truths swirl, elide and reveal themselves in Billy Porter’s directorial debut, “Anything’s Possible.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2022

He was keen to elide the differences between ancient Rome and his own London, as well as those between Verona and Canterbury.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

His letter elides the distinction between Covid vaccines for healthy children and medicines like Sarepta’s that treat debilitating and fatal diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

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

By skipping over Nora’s teenage and early adult years, Song elides a lot of details and short-circuits a lot of potential immigrant-experience clichés.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

But it also elides an inconvenient truth about mainstream filmmaking that most screenwriters would prefer go un-emphasized, which is that their craft has always been a bastardized art form.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2023

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 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 man's speech came with the gliddering rush of an electric car; it was a concentration of words into one intensity of meaning; he elided everything possible, he ran all his words together.

From The Portion of Labor by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

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

"TikTok videos. We've got a lot of TikTok videos," Ingrahm responded, eliding any context.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2021

I don’t think a 53-year-old mother is a vulnerable or inexperienced young adult, and I think you can drop the “girl” from “girl/woman” without worrying you’re eliding some serious imbalance of power.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 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