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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
elide .
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Examples
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So each time you see a "vet" or "veteran" of an illegal war remember that by and large the full description being elided is "veteran criminal," even when they are "veteran fools" and criminals only for being too stupid to know better.
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In fact, that which was deemed religious may have simply been elided from the records in most cases.
Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India 2001
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But he also complains that his statements have been "elided" to mean "he has no regrets for setting bombs and thinks there should be more bombings."
Political Diary 2008
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Web has since become a major Global English term, particularly in one of its elided forms: the critical b in blog.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Web has since become a major Global English term, particularly in one of its elided forms: the critical b in blog.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The philosophical beliefs of a mid-19th-century denizen of the British Museum are all too quickly elided with the most terrible atrocities of the 20th century as an all-purpose intellectual get-out card.
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Milieu Recognition: With different specifics of comparable locales elided, a fictive milieu may be recognised as essentially matching the experiential milieu of the reader -- e.g. where the fictive milieu of a novel set in Liverpool resembles the experiential milieu of a reader living in Glasgow.
Archive 2009-12-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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But even in the elided quotation provided, Stiglitz says that “whenever information is imperfect and markets incomplete,” there will be inefficiency in market operations.
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And no, the parenthetical mention that he is gay is not gratuitous in the least, it reflects the PC climate at large, as does the lacrosse case — i.e. what is edited into the news vs. what is elided out of the news: a trumped-up case vs. an actual case and the publicity that surrounded each of those cases (the lack of publicity in the case of Frank Lombard).
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They alleged two of the requisite material elements [and elided a bit the difference between false statements and lies], but totally ignored the third mandatory element (for some reason; my suspicion is that they knew that they could not show this third one or even reasonable allege it, and hoped people were either ignorant of perjury law or not paying attention).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement 2010
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