some unnecessary verbiage will need to be elided, but otherwise the article is publishable the product presentation was not elided—it's always only 15 minutes long

Recent Examples on the Web

The Trump campaign’s decision to elide this last fact and lean fully into messaging about urban disorder during the RNC should have been seen universally as an act of desperation. Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, "The “Law and Order” Backlash Against Biden Was a Mirage," 4 Sep. 2020

The resurging coronavirus has in many places exposed fault lines of class and privilege that allow those with means to escape high-risk environments, to put off work and to elide financial concerns in the interest of staying safe. Andrew Keh, New York Times, "Coronavirus Leads Some Athletes to Opt Out, if They Can Afford It," 3 July 2020

The paternal gaze can all too easily elide internal complexity in favor of external reactivity, seeing the daughter's actions not as a reflection of her own growth and legacy but of his. Julie Muncy, Wired, "Last of Us Part II Is Great, but Can't Escape Its Father's Shadow," 12 June 2020

Much of the film is focused on Brown-Long’s personal path to some kind of redemption, and Birman elides some of the systemic forces and racial dynamics that surrounded her landing a life sentence in the first place. Mahita Gajanan, Time, "The History Behind the Netflix Documentary Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story," 29 Apr. 2020

The announcement, using China’s name for what are more commonly known as the Spratly Islands, elided the bitter dispute surrounding the archipelago, where the Chinese military has created a series of artificial islands to house military outposts. Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times, "What the coronavirus hasn’t stopped: Beijing’s buildup in the South China Sea," 10 Apr. 2020

Acknowledging these unavoidable trade-offs rather than eliding them can clarify decision-making and lead to additional strategies to aid individuals and communities most harmed by Covid-19. Vinay Prasad, STAT, "Covid-19, a ‘supernova in human history,’ will need multiple perspectives to understand and manage," 14 May 2020

Another way to elide the distinction between public and personal property is to be royal. The Economist, "How to hide a billion dollars," 10 Oct. 2019

Grosse, apparently, carefully elided that conversation and stuck to her favorite script — how her work inhabits space and shifts perceptions of architecture, how an ephemeral installation can re-order one’s idea of bricks-and-mortar permanence. Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, "At the MFA, German artist Katharina Grosse contends with Jackson Pollock," 5 Sep. 2019

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