elide
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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
“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
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
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