elide

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If Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” was the proverbial hit single of the evening, Noseda and Co. offered a treatment that foregrounded easily elided details and pushed its painterly scenes to extremes.

From Washington Post

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

His new conciliatory posture elides his own responsibility for launching the judicial overhaul — a pet project of ultraright parties upon whom his prime ministership depends — in the first place.

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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

Family members had lived through the Armenian genocide, and she grew up with an awareness that historically grand narratives have a way of eliding certain events.

From New York Times