elide

But she was not willing to elide the defendant’s burden.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026

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

It’s about ensuring that we don’t elide the facts of incarceration — the enormity of its scale and impact.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 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

But the prevalence of this archetype almost elides the basic fact that spurning therapy is a symptom of a deeper avoidance: the denial of a need for treatment of any kind.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

And though Rivera is perhaps best known for shooting L.A.’s queer Latino underground, he elides any simplistic categorizations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

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

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 more public figures guilty of similar acts—Tommy Robinson, Douglas Murray, Andrew Tate—have elided such prosecution, however.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2024

In both cases, he elided inconvenient facts and oversimplified complex systems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

The grammar and orthography suggest the idea, but the more difficult details of punctuation will be attended to, even to the apostrophe that marks the elided g in such words as "talkin'," "comin'," &c.

From The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents by Douglas Blackburn

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

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

Instead of fudging or eliding the vertical joins, he emphasized them, creating multi-paneled photographs where figures or parts of figures are visibly duplicated.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2023

“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

She had this way of rushing subjects, eliding the obvious, and relying on her hearers.

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan