How to Use elide in a Sentence

elide

verb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Trump will mercilessly expound upon them to elide his own.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2019
• That story elided a lot of the troubling parts of Taiwan’s history.
  — Didi Kirsten Tatlow, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2016
• What this position elided, of course, was that Jim Crow was a legal regime.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• 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 Dack, in eliding herself from the story, replaces the missing details with nothing.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• The song has long elided its origins and attached itself to the fascia of Black spirituality.
  — Christina Sharpe, Harper's Magazine, 21 May 2023
• 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
• This elides a few important differences between the two schools of thought, including how each handles the interest rate.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Minhaj has elided or concocted other details in his stories, often to place himself more squarely at the center of the action.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
• But too often, sustainable design seems to elide the harsh truths of climate change and appears to be created instead to reassure us.
  — Meg Charlton, Slate Magazine, 2 Jan. 2018
• His voice here has body, its rough edges cannily elided, his phrasing constantly finding new angles on lyrics that may once have seemed nailed in place.
  — Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• The reasons for why Crosby is so polarizing are politely danced around and his worst behavior is elided.
  — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 19 July 2019
• Besides these inanities, the film also elides or ignores key questions about Pavarotti’s career.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• Expanses of glass that elide the interior with the natural surroundings.
  — Christopher Benfey, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 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
• Over time, it became elided with human mothers, who have always provided a handy metaphor for religion.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 May 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
• 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.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022

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