eliding

present participle of elide
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Recent Examples of eliding There’s been a lot of the show skipping ahead lately — including the big jump at the start of this week’s episode, eliding the moment when Wendy was captured and brought back to the main facility. Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eliding
Verb
  • TikTok deal reached Looks like Americans won’t have to worry about deleting the TikTok app off their phone.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Not only does cloud storage occupy less space, but it cannot be physically destroyed and rendered useless like physical hard drives without a user explicitly deleting information.
    Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Or consider shortening your get-ready time in the morning with our preferred hot air brush and the sheer concealer that brightens under-eyes.
    Madison Yauger, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The company’s ethos is centered on significantly shortening the drug discovery and development process, ultimately creating medicines to treat the most significant killers, starting with aggressive cancers like breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma.
    Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Failing to seize the narrative, the authorities shifted course and began erasing the record from public memory.
    Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
  • 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, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But the building feels temporary, with United having previously discussed removing it.
    Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • More than 200 bodies are still on the mountain, left there because of the difficulty, risk, and cost of removing them, the database says.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Eliding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eliding. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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