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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

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

“Doxology,” for instance, brushes up against a litany of major historical events, 9/11, the Trump election, only to skirt their impacts or at least elide them.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2022

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

On an even darker note, a dad uses his Google Pixel’s A.I. feature to talk about the joys of raising children, and somehow the severe dystopian motifs of this premise completely elides the company.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2025

The Kingdom of Hawaii was illegally overthrown in 1893 with the aid of the U.S. armed forces and the islands became a state in 1959 — a one-sentence history that elides generations of further losses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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

He was assiduously seconded by Mr. Henry Crayon, thin-faced and alert as ever, speaking in short, snappy sentences, from which all useless adjectives were elided.

From The Candidate A Political Romance by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

The organization’s current incarnation, after a fraud investigation, as I Ching Systems and Artworks, invites contemplation as an aesthetic practice, even as its intent is less art world aspiration than eliding F.D.A. scrutiny.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

"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 Isabel Florence Hapgood