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Recent Examples of elide The 2006 film Superman Returns also elides the classic mantra. Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2025 The talk elided any reference to the mechanics of reproduction—this was not the talk—but was an otherwise wide-ranging explication of the subject matter, drawing on the Book of Genesis, personal observations, and popular mythology. Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 14 June 2025 Trump presents himself as pro-business by eliding the difference between Big Business and small businesses. Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025 Other fans will recognize the name May Pang, an assistant of the couple who, starting in 1973, had an affair with Lennon that’s discreetly elided here. Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for elide
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elide
Verb
  • Click the right arrow and mark as known or delete the spam.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The student cited a study that was recently deleted by the Department of Justice, which decisively stated that right-wing political violence is much more common than left-wing violence, on which Kirk's assassination has been blamed.
    Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Promising to cut logistics costs, shorten schedules and reduce Carbon emissions by lowering travel, the service is trialing with early adopters.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Allowing a layer of gunk to grow on weather stripping also shortens its lifespan.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Those Padres quickly erased a one-run deficit and eventually won on a walk-off home run by Steve Garvey that remains perhaps the franchise’s greatest moment.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Those closures would sharply curtail supplies of fuel not only for California motorists but for those in Nevada and Arizona, while threatening the ability of airlines and military installations to obtain fuel and probably increasing prices that are already among the nation’s highest.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Recent breakthroughs to curtail the obesity epidemic or combat cancer are prime examples that have made headlines.
    Elaine Parker, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This simple transmitter plugs into the headphone jack on your screen and connects to your favorite noise-canceling headphones to drown out the sounds of other passengers while allowing for hours of entertainment with your own personal earbuds.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
  • While airlines don't yet have travel advisories for travel to and from Phoenix, airlines generally rebook passengers on the next available flight at no additional cost when a flight is canceled or delayed.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The First Amendment, which prevents the government from making laws that abridge freedom of expression, has regularly been found to broadly protect free speech when challenges reach the Supreme Court.
    Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Mendez bypassed the plaintiffs’ contention that the measure unconstitutionally abridged free speech rights.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Elide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elide. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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