gloss over
Example Sentences
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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
If you’re in early retirement — or close to it — you don’t want to gloss over the announcement of new tax brackets for 2026 as next year’s problem.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 10, 2025
She added: "I'd have stamped on the book I think. Just to gloss over why they ran out of money to me was shocking."
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
