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Such abundance makes the job of a critic difficult: For every artist and presentation that gets singled out there are several others that are elided due to space constraints.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

"When a wrongful conviction occurs, it is, in the end, because they said so. All too often, the responsibility of judges for producing and maintaining wrongful convictions gets neglected, elided, and ignored."

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2024

The announcement elided answers to any number of questions.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2024

In both cases, he elided inconvenient facts and oversimplified complex systems.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023

The man's speech came with the gliddering rush of an electric car; it was a concentration of words into one intensity of meaning; he elided everything possible, he ran all his words together.

From The Portion of Labor by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins