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Examples of elide in a Sentence
some unnecessary verbiage will need to be elided, but otherwise the article is publishable
the product presentation was not elided—it's always only 15 minutes long
Origin and Etymology of elide
Latin elidere to strike out, from e- + laedere to injure by striking
First Known Use: 1796
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