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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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McWilliam examines how the French nation attempted to narrate, negotiate, memorialize, elide or repress its own past and the real conditions of its present.
Worst of all, they elide the obvious point that all revolts fluctuate between periods of progress and regression.
Why elide the fact that Sarah Palin is a darling of Fox News, the highest-rated cable-news network in America?
Unfortunately, this tends to elide distinctions between the producers and consumers of discourse.
What seems to elide both is that the United States is no longer the axis around which the global economy revolves.
Since the publication of her first novel, she has returned in her fiction to epiphanic moments which elide divisions in time and space.

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