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As Miran noted, this created a classic “lamppost problem External link”: Economists studied what could be quantified and largely ignored what couldn’t.
From Barron's
By high school it was Dr. Dre, bass rattling the rearview mirror of my beat-up white Monte Carlo—raw, confrontational, impossible to ignore.
He said “the actual evidence was dismissed or ignored” by most reporting, including “mountains” of “emails, text messages and video evidence that flatly contradict” the claims.
From Los Angeles Times
All this time she’s either ignored me or made fun of me, and now, even when she wants something from me, she’s still acting like she’s doing me the favor.
From Literature
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But Paxton said their danger was "plain to all, hence the strict laws" that he alleged Warren "ignored".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.