brush aside
phrasal verb
brushed aside; brushing aside; brushes aside
: to treat (something) as not important : to ignore or dismiss (something)
He brushed aside questions about his son's arrest.
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Trump also brushed aside concerns voiced by nuclear officials and experts over whether Iran was able to move its nuclear equipment beforehand and what happened to the enriched uranium stored in tunnels deep underground.
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 26 June 2025
Matthew brushes aside the bottled water in the young man’s hand.
—Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
Some injuries are deemed acceptable to ignore – or brush aside – for a short period of time.
—Shane Young, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Real problems are being brushed aside in favor of ones that have been invented by the men who’ve tapped themselves to solve them.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2025
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 26 June 2025
Matthew brushes aside the bottled water in the young man’s hand.
—Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
Some injuries are deemed acceptable to ignore – or brush aside – for a short period of time.
—Shane Young, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Real problems are being brushed aside in favor of ones that have been invented by the men who’ve tapped themselves to solve them.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for brush aside
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“Brush aside.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brush%20aside. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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