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

“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

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

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 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

While the film elides a slew of minor characters and subplots, Murray’s omnivorous fascination is a counterpoint to Jack’s increasingly grim self-involvement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

Kushner, of course, conveniently elides the fact that this unusual access was primarily the inevitable result of his marriage to the president’s daughter.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022

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

Moreover, his narratives elided colonization and devalued objects of great spiritual importance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

Late in the afternoon James succeeded in getting her to the machine; Martha uttered a sentence without punctuating it with little giggles, but it came as elided babytalk.

From The Fourth R by George Oliver Smith

Tadej Pogacar won nearly every bike race he entered, and he appeared to do it with ease, conquering rivals and Alpine ascents and eliding the perpetual danger of a perilous sport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

“Self-taught” is also a euphemism, one eliding the structural reasons why an artist might have gone without formal education.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

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

Instead of eliding that conversation, the writers step into the center of it.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2020

This eliding of the vowel is shown by printing the e and the o of the final syllables in italics.

From The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Sherwin Cody