cast aside

phrasal verb

cast aside; casting aside; casts aside

: to stop thinking about (something)

She tried to cast aside her worries and enjoy the party.

She cast all thoughts of making the trip aside.

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Many more will be cast aside, never to be seen again. —

Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 6 Nov. 2024 Satirizing the former president’s speech from his Wednesday rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Johnson briefly cast aside his impersonation, which regularly consists of Trump leaping topic to topic without any firm footing. —

Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2024 Old conventions governing escalation have been cast aside; new actors have emerged, and all are jockeying for dominance. —

Mona Yacoubian, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2024 Brought into the world through an artificial insemination process gone wrong, Hae-jo was cast aside by his parents and grew up wandering his way through life without a family. —

Regina Kim, Forbes, 19 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cast aside