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That also has unsettling contextual implications that the writers can’t gloss over.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

It was the kind of routine email that employees would normally gloss over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

“You want to actively increase your retirement contributions. So many people do ‘set it and forget it,’ and it’s so easy to gloss over.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

“The internet has always allowed us to participate in mass nostalgia,” Lorenz said, because “social media encourages us to gloss over the bad.”

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2024

Naturally, I shall gloss over details and mention only what seem to me the trends most relevant to this book.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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