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What does elide mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word elide? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To leave out or omit (something).
  2. To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.
  3. Conflate; smear together; blur the distinction between.
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Why elide the fact that Sarah Palin is a darling of Fox News, the highest-rated cable-news network in America?
I call it unchivalrous because it has been known to elide eulogies of enemy decency and enemy valour.
Would it not be possible for the more delicate readers of my otherwise inoffensive narrative to elide the word?
Since the publication of her first novel, she has returned in her fiction to epiphanic moments which elide divisions in time and space.
Worst of all, they elide the obvious point that all revolts fluctuate between periods of progress and regression.
Does Englishness elide into Scottishness in a sidling sort of way, like a pint of milk on the turn?

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