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

Critics have concluded, absolutely correctly, that this provision serves to elide the manifold horrors of slavery by searching out its good side.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

In fact, the day-to-day operations of many galleries are built around more banal forms of excess that elide easy parody but are equally pernicious.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

He was keen to elide the differences between ancient Rome and his own London, as well as those between Verona and Canterbury.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But she elides the evidence that college-educated fathers spend far more time with their children than men did a generation ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

This theory elides the structural disadvantages of Detroit and other cities, but that doesn’t mean that voters won’t subscribe to it.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2024

Later in his non-resignation letter he called himself a victim of cancel culture and compared himself to the singer Lizzo, a comparison that elides the different responsibilities that pop stars and elected officials shoulder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 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

He evaded questions and elided answers, and showed all the grace and gratitude of a kindergartner who pees in a sandbox and expects others to clean up the mess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2024

In the “yt” then, we have the y or thorn substituted for th and the vowel elided, but the sign should be pronounced “that.”

From Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton

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

He also dug up an archaic definition of “facility” from an old law dictionary, eliding key context that limited this idiosyncratic usage to railroads at the turn of the 20th century.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2023

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

“Self-taught” is also a euphemism, one eliding the structural reasons why an artist might have gone without formal education.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

She had this way of rushing subjects, eliding the obvious, and relying on her hearers.

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan