gloss over
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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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