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- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elide.
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Examples
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He said it "kind of elides the apparent fact that Descriptions don't actually have any SEO weight.
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Manzi elides his point about per capita GDP by saying that he was focused on economic power, not productivity.
Matthew Yglesias » Social Democracy and Global Competitiveness
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However, for centuries in Japan they preferred to take advantage of ceramic misadventure by actually drawing attention to it by means of kintsugi, especially when the new aesthetic element thus added either comments on, converges, or even elides with the shape and colour of the original vessel — making it look even more beautiful and, incidentally, valuable than before.
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But his book elides the question of whether this circuit is also the source of IQ differences.
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Quantifying saves so much time, even if it elides important things.
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Each update further elides the violence of the event into a murmuring narrative of our collective grief.
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Tyro – I take your point about how film elides the difference between historical fiction and historical narrative in a way that books do not.
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Of course, he elides over this by saying if you use PPP, “the US looks better.”
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Betwixt its tousled past and its eco-lined future, the country is a magic glass through which the past elides, and the future flows thick with possibilities.
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He revises their time signatures, elides them, elongates them, derives incomparable pleasure from ignoring them, suggesting as he does that melodies are blueprints for a different kind of improvisation, for a different kind of deconstruction, for, that is, an unprecedented Elling treatment.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Kurt Elling Fools Around With Time at Birdland
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