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

Critics have concluded, absolutely correctly, that this provision serves to elide the manifold horrors of slavery by searching out its good side.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

This served to elide the question of how much he was working at all.

From The Verge ● Nov. 29, 2021

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

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 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

The play elides Court’s winning record over King.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

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 announcement elided answers to any number of questions.

From Slate ● Nov. 16, 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

In the grammar and vocabulary the syllable which may be elided is enclosed in a bracket, and in compound words and phrases the elision is marked with an apostrophe, as in the preceding examples.

From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson

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

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

This framing is anything but compassionate: In eliding adoption’s painful complexities, it could lead us to callously repeat the damaging mistakes of the past.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2021

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 Isabel Florence Hapgood