elide
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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
“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
This served to elide the question of how much he was working at all.
From The Verge ● Nov. 29, 2021
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
Later in his non-resignation letter he called himself a victim of cancel culture and compared himself to the singer Lizzo, a comparison that elides the different responsibilities that pop stars and elected officials shoulder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 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
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 more public figures guilty of similar acts—Tommy Robinson, Douglas Murray, Andrew Tate—have elided such prosecution, however.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2024
He evaded questions and elided answers, and showed all the grace and gratitude of a kindergartner who pees in a sandbox and expects others to clean up the mess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2024
Occasionally, when Durand looked up from his absorption, they exchanged a few swift remarks, elided, compressed, telegraphic; for they understood each other so well that the unabridged form of speech was no longer necessary.
From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White
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
The transitions eschew title cards, subtly eliding shifts by returning to images of Jane in her car.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
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
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