How to Use elide in a Sentence

elide

verb
Definition of elidenext
Synonyms for elidenext
  • But that elides the somewhat sticky question of what hip-hop should do.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
  • The first set of criticisms elides the boardroom with the barroom.
    — Elizabeth Drew, New Republic, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Best to elide all that with skipping and swinging, surely?
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2022
  • But the main way the film wrestles with the complications of its own story is by eliding them.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2019
  • What this position elided, of course, was that Jim Crow was a legal regime.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Which is so much to do with eliding the boring part of the story and getting into the propulsive part of the narrative.
    — Sari Botton, Longreads, 2 Mar. 2018
  • This hasn’t been easy given Mr. Trump’s tendency to elide the two, and sometimes the interests of both will match.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2018
  • That story elided a lot of the troubling parts of Taiwan’s history.
    — Didi Kirsten Tatlow, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2016
  • Taking the film from Woolf’s point of view helps elide its uneven moments and lack of character depth (but not its sometimes sludgy pace).
    — Katie Walsh | Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2019
  • At just under 180 pages, Dueck’s narrative seems a bit too short and elides some crucial questions.
    — Mario Loyola, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The behavior that might have driven her to such an act is carefully elided, if not hard to imagine.
    — Tom Shone, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Taking the film from Virginia’s point of view helps elide its uneven moments and lack of character depth (but not its sometimes sludgy pace).
    — Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Yet Dack, in eliding herself from the story, replaces the missing details with nothing.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Making women both the harmers and the harmed, Sharp Objects elides the easy lesson of most crime shows, which is that men are predators and women are victims.
    — Anna Silman, The Cut, 11 July 2018
  • This argument, though, elided the thread of old-fashioned misogyny that ran through many of Nelson’s posts.
    — Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
  • There were two things about Kasich that were elided in the rush to find someone (anyone!) in his party that could be wedged into the box labelled Not Insane.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The challenge to overthrow Gaddafi meant that the past lives of money, once so easily elided by the flow of capital, was remembered.
    — Longreads, 3 Oct. 2017
  • That truth was always there, mired in language that elided this point with soft-focus poetry.
    — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Such questions are elided behind the fig leaf of Hoffman’s mysticism.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Yet the movie elides more or less all of the substance in this backstory, leaving the central relationship of the film, the marital one, utterly opaque.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The playful scene elides the practicalities of the men’s connection, in a way that holds true for interactions throughout the film.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • These stark scenes, with lots of passages of white-on-white set against blue skies, slow how smoothly realism elides into abstraction.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 13 July 2019
  • Forget, also, the reckless growth of the state in America in recent years, a reality many prefer to elide.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Trump will mercilessly expound upon them to elide his own.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Fortunately, Aniello and Downs manage to elide the severity of that act with some clever plotting, and a whole lot of weird and wacky elements to distract from that.
    — Katie Walsh, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
  • After the takeover of Rwanda by a Tutsi dominated rebel movement in the wake of the genocide there was an attempt to elide these deadly distinctions.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2011
  • This elides self-interested motives for civil-rights reform—the influence of the Cold War, the threat of urban rebellion—in favor of warm and fuzzy ones.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • For a documentary that’s longer than most of Spielberg’s movies, Spielberg elides some of the most intriguing aspects of his history.
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The demands of the latter lead Small to truncate important events, eliding their deeper complexities.
    — Charlotte Kent, ARTnews.com, 13 June 2024
  • But in the film, Lily is delusional about her relationship and the movie blurs the lines of the abuse for too long to a frustrating degree that essentially robs our hero of her agency, and elides some of Ryle’s obvious manipulation.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024

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