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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Hoover brushed aside the arguments of his own economists who warned that other nations would respond with their own tariffs, touching off a trade war in which every country would lose.
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Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2025
Nathan Howard | Reuters Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick brushed aside the idea that some imports from certain countries will win exemptions from the new U.S. tariffs.
—Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,christina Wilkie,michele Luhn, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
Real biological symptoms, including lack of sleep, brain fog, weight gain and mood fluctuations are often symptoms that are brushed aside but create a significant burden on women and their productivity.
—Bernadette Boden Albala, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
The fact that he was condemned for actions that, just a few years ago, would probably have been brushed aside by producers hoping to bank off his celebrity, shows how far the industry has come in a relatively short time.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2025
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Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2025
Nathan Howard | Reuters Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick brushed aside the idea that some imports from certain countries will win exemptions from the new U.S. tariffs.
—Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,christina Wilkie,michele Luhn, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
Real biological symptoms, including lack of sleep, brain fog, weight gain and mood fluctuations are often symptoms that are brushed aside but create a significant burden on women and their productivity.
—Bernadette Boden Albala, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
The fact that he was condemned for actions that, just a few years ago, would probably have been brushed aside by producers hoping to bank off his celebrity, shows how far the industry has come in a relatively short time.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2025
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“Brush aside.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brush%20aside. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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