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Definition:
to omit; to slur over (facts or speech); to not elucidate; to leave out of consideration
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Which raises the question: How did Article II count slaves? The stodgy story elides the matter, focusing abstractly on “large” states and “small” ones without highlighting underlying issues of slavery and suffrage.

Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)
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So he wrote Le russe Besuhof and adding up the numbers got 671. This was only five too much, and five was represented by e, the very letter elided from the article le before the word Empereur.

Leo. War and Peace Tolstoy: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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