gloss over
Example Sentences
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As my experience over the past few weeks has shown, we can benefit from such exchanges without having to gloss over or ignore our differences.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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
Still, the economic vibes people felt were a real thing — and trying to gloss over voters’ concerns was a mistake.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 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
Somehow, he could gloss over the whole appearing/disappearing part of the story, just as he’d glossed over it when Katherine was telling about the vanishing man in Mr. Reardon’s office.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
