cast aside
Example Sentences
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“You take what the world cast aside and breathe spirit into it, insisting that the overlooked can speak, that the discarded can testify, that the everyday can dream.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
It will fall to other parents to say that those who have cast aside the question of children’s well-being speak neither for our nation’s traditions nor for children themselves.
From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026
Guardiola must still be furious and frustrated at how City were so much in command at half-time with a two-goal advantage, yet somehow contrived to cast aside two points and almost lose all three.
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026
But somewhere along the line, economics was all but consumed by math, and things everybody had always known—that humans are fickle, emotional, bad at reasoning, captives of their prior mistakes, etc.—were forgotten or cast aside.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
He forced the door open, cast aside the chair and boxes hastily piled against it with one lazy wave of his wand...and there she stood, the child in her arms.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
