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
  • 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
  • Anderson doesn’t take it that far, but rather elides further exploration.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Long Lance elided the Black in favor of the Native.
    — David Treuer, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • That truth was always there, mired in language that elided this point with soft-focus poetry.
    — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
  • What this position elided, of course, was that Jim Crow was a legal regime.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Detail from a brush—a string of pearl-like dots, say—might be later applied, but the artist’s hand is elided by design.
    — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Telling the story this way elides, smooths over, and underestimates the role of circumstance and dumb luck.
    — Charles Yu, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • That story elided a lot of the troubling parts of Taiwan’s history.
    — Didi Kirsten Tatlow, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2016
  • 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
  • Such questions are elided behind the fig leaf of Hoffman’s mysticism.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Much Democratic rhetoric has elided the nuances of these concurrent truths.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Yet Dack, in eliding herself from the story, replaces the missing details with nothing.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • This argument, though, elided the thread of old-fashioned misogyny that ran through many of Nelson’s posts.
    — Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Besides these inanities, the film also elides or ignores key questions about Pavarotti’s career.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
  • Besides these inanities, the film also elides or ignores key questions about Pavarotti’s career.
    — Philip Kennicott, Twin Cities, 14 June 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
  • 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, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Speaking of eliding time, how much has passed since Willow’s introduction in the previous episode?
    — Genevieve Koski, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The film’s premise is rendered abstract, mapped out with a quasi-mathematical rigor that merely elides the specifics on which the drama depends.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The smash cut to July was meant to take everyone back to a time when their win felt inevitable, re-starting the clock and eliding all the ups and downs of the past few months.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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