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- verb Present participle of
elide .
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Examples
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It was almost as if Murdoch and team were willfully ignoring the Internet a platform where News Corp. has struggled with paywalls and other pitfalls, and eliding the golden age of broadcast television and print with the supposed coming of the age of the iPad.
'The Daily' Launches For And Only For The iPad Rob Fishman 2011
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It was almost as if Murdoch and team were willfully ignoring the Internet a platform where News Corp. has struggled with paywalls and other pitfalls, and eliding the golden age of broadcast television and print with the supposed coming of the age of the iPad.
'The Daily' Launches For And Only For The iPad Rob Fishman 2011
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Daniel Kuehn — you seem to be eliding commitment to a federal structure with over-representation of rural areas.
Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet 2010
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And in so doing, Bush's eliding of church and state boundaries diminished not only his political authority as a world leader that he so cherished, but it also diminishes one of the central objectives he wanted to obtain during his presidency -- moral authority.
Irene Monroe: Where Were the Gays at Rick Perry's Mega Prayerfest? Irene Monroe 2011
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And in so doing, Bush's eliding of church and state boundaries diminished not only his political authority as a world leader that he so cherished, but it also diminishes one of the central objectives he wanted to obtain during his presidency -- moral authority.
Irene Monroe: Where Were the Gays at Rick Perry's Mega Prayerfest? Irene Monroe 2011
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Daniel Kuehn — you seem to be eliding commitment to a federal structure with over-representation of rural areas.
Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet 2010
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You seem to be eliding over the difference between “making something illegal” and “preventing.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Licensed carry now allowed at Colorado community colleges 2010
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But I think the prejudice against the passive stems more from the fact that, by eliding the agent, the passive is often used to obscure facts or to avoid attributing responsibility, or is seen as impersonal and hence insincere.
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Part of your error derives from your eliding “representing a (potentially) bad guy in court” to “supporting a bad guy (or accused bad guy).”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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And in so doing, Bush's eliding of church and state boundaries diminished not only his political authority as a world leader that he so cherished, but it also diminishes one of the central objectives he wanted to obtain during his presidency -- moral authority.
Irene Monroe: Where Were the Gays at Rick Perry's Mega Prayerfest? Irene Monroe 2011
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