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elide

verb as in omit

Weak match

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The “last boots on the ground” message elides that truth, tempting us to believe that war is still a symmetrical contest among men, not a battle fought on one side with machines and money, and on the other with terror and zealotry.

It also elides the role the Founders played in preserving slavery and constructing the institutional racial inequality that persists to the present day.

That the NSF should be reformed by cutting its budget 10 percent, eliding studies like the cocaine quail.

Those who want real representation for conservative populism in the Senate deserve someone who will take them seriously, not hide behind phony anti-woke posturing to elide them.

It can be tempting to make that belonging straightforward, to elide differences and emphasize the ways I am like my loved ones.

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Worst of all, they elide the obvious point that all revolts fluctuate between periods of progress and regression.

His two-hour photos of movies being screened elide the films they pretend to reveal.

What seems to elide both is that the United States is no longer the axis around which the global economy revolves.

Why elide the fact that Sarah Palin is a darling of Fox News, the highest-rated cable-news network in America?

Would it not be possible for the more delicate readers of my otherwise inoffensive narrative to elide the word?

Hence there is no need to elide a vowel at the caesura; it must therefore be sounded clearly.

As described in the end notes, ellipses occasionally are used typographically to elide names.

Words which do not end in e, rarely elide a final vowel, and never the last syllable.

I call it unchivalrous because it has been known to elide eulogies of enemy decency and enemy valour.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to elide, such as: cancel, delete, neglect, suppress, and pass over.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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