Example Sentences

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His letter elides the distinction between Covid vaccines for healthy children and medicines like Sarepta’s that treat debilitating and fatal diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

On an even darker note, a dad uses his Google Pixel’s A.I. feature to talk about the joys of raising children, and somehow the severe dystopian motifs of this premise completely elides the company.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2025

The Kingdom of Hawaii was illegally overthrown in 1893 with the aid of the U.S. armed forces and the islands became a state in 1959 — a one-sentence history that elides generations of further losses.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023

Ausubel elides the technical details, but she’s not wandering entirely in the land of fantasy.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

To us, the sound of the horn elides from high frequencies to low.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan