elide

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

The director’s “inspired idea of showing the very thing that most movies either ignore or awkwardly elide — the passage of time — is its impressive, headline-making conceit,” she added.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

MAK’s exhibition smartly recasts some of these dreamy accounts, which elide some of L.A.’s uglier historical episodes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2022

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

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

While the film elides a slew of minor characters and subplots, Murray’s omnivorous fascination is a counterpoint to Jack’s increasingly grim self-involvement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 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

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 announcement elided answers to any number of questions.

From Slate ● Nov. 16, 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

Here again the final short vowel has been elided, but in old poetry we should find ghōṛu, and corresponding forms in u are occasionally met with at the present day.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

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

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

The past-present parallelism is provocative, but it also seems faintly superficial — a way of eliding distinctions and streamlining history.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022

Instead of eliding that conversation, the writers step into the center of it.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2020

But surely I shall admit the vulgarity of slurring or altogether eliding certain terminal consonants?

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell