How to Use gloss over in a Sentence
gloss over
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Still does not gloss over the toll that Parkinson’s takes.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2024
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But his stylish book glosses over the flaws in that vision.
—Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
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But there also are the rookie moments that tend to get glossed over.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
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But the situations are so cliché, the conflicts so glossed over, that the connection gets lost.
—Pat Padua, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
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The violence is never lurid, but Fountain doesn’t gloss over it, either.
—Shawna Seed, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
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Even local-news broadcasts glossed over many of the details, focussing instead on the tension between the city council and the mayor.
—Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
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Those were excellent performances and shouldn’t be glossed over.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2024
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The Early Access version of the game—which netted a million Steam sales in its first 24 hours last month—forces you to do a lot of the heavy lifting that many other city builders tend to gloss over.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 10 May 2024
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Both angler and artist are always reading, attuned to details that others might gloss over.
—Max Norman, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2024
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Cemetery caretakers have said on signage and a web page that the memorial was part of a larger attempt to gloss over slavery’s evils.
—Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
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The point of a biopic is to capture the essence of the subject, not to create a Madame Tussauds fun house that glosses over history in favor of a perfect likeness (most biopics fail at both, hence the hex).
—Zoe Guy, Vulture, 7 June 2024
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One common criticism was that Li glossed over the relative poverty and hardship of rural life.
—Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
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Ferrari recommends updating the trend by using a shimmery powder right in the center of the lips and applying a tinted gloss over it.
—Pia Velasco, Allure, 6 Nov. 2023
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But this glosses over the extent to which our society pushes girls and women toward motherhood, in both subtle and not so subtle ways.
—The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
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Barbie’s persona also glossed over the realities of her early years.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 21 July 2023
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According to Van Essen, that approach glosses over dramatic differences in patterns of surface folds from one brain to the next.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 31 May 2023
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Regardless of who’s at the helm, though, each episode does a fantastic job of shedding light on regions that are too often glossed over in other nature documentaries.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2024
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The arm remains elite and the raw athletic ability is more than capable of glossing over the lesser experience in center.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2023
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And perhaps Serebrennikov wanted to avoid the same disenchantment, which is why his film glosses over many of the more troubling incidents that Carrère’s book outlines.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 May 2024
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Knowing full well the significance of Rosenthal both on the screen and in real life, Mann refused to gloss over the details of the B-17 and the many responsibilities that a bomber pilot has before, during and after a flight.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2024
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That idea, however, glosses over the contributions of Black artists who have been holding down these genres before the Renaissance trilogy came to life.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2024
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While in France, as elsewhere, the left and the far right are often viewed as vying for power over the political center, this narrative glosses over some critical distinctions.
—Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
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Society has a terrible habit of only recognizing achievement while glossing over the greatness in the shadows.
—Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 4 Jan. 2024
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The vegan formula is fortified with marshmallow root extract, a soothing agent that not only glosses over the skin for flawless makeup, but softens the skin over time, as well.
—Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
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But attention tends to focus almost exclusively on startups that have won the battle for venture capital, glossing over the 90% of the iceberg under the surface.
—Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
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Unfortunately, the male partner's contribution to a couple's pregnancy plans tends to get glossed over.
—Karen Pallarito, Health, 12 May 2023
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DeSantis repeatedly glossed over Florida’s worst problems in ways the national media would not be likely to catch.
—Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024
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Armendáriz went on to solidify his legacy when wrestling Hijo Del Santo, but the film provides a strangely sanitized version of these events, even glossing over his substance abuse issues.
—Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2023
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Insiders at Warners didn’t even try to gloss over the situation, saying the movie was rejected by moviegoers on a wholesale basis (the studio had anticipated a 50 to 55 percent drop).
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2023
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The message of Elliott’s signing is demonstrating that, unlike last season, Belichick isn’t going to just blithely gloss over miscalculations that harm the offense without changing course.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
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