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

“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

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

Mr. Berger elides this first burst of violence, I think wisely, the better to contrast the noble Titus of the play’s beginnings with the vengeful man he becomes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

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

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

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

What concerned us then was the way workers were being elided from history and their exploitation made to magically disappear.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2023

This shows a decline in the proportional duration of the elision as the total value of the measure elided increases.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg

For a memoirist, Mr. Lemann remains ambivalent about self-revelation, eliding his professional accomplishments and any emotional upheavals along the way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

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

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