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
In fact, the day-to-day operations of many galleries are built around more banal forms of excess that elide easy parody but are equally pernicious.
From New York Times ● Mar. 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
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 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
The play elides Court’s winning record over King.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 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
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
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
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
"TikTok videos. We've got a lot of TikTok videos," Ingrahm responded, eliding any context.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2021
Milton restored the lost syllable, often eliding the final vowel, as in Exile, or ignominy, or bonds, or pain.
From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by John Sargeaunt
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