ignoring

Example Sentences

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On Monday, the climate-vulnerable Alliance of Small Island States said countries could not keep ignoring "the elephant in the room" and warned that anything short of winding down fossil fuels was "papering over the cracks".

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

The train eventually filled up, with highly social creatures now sitting side by side for 30 to 45 minutes, completely ignoring each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

"It's not a PR stunt it's raising awareness and mobilising together that as civil society we have power to do something when governments are ignoring genocide," she said.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

A woman heckled the mayor just as he was about to speak and accused city leadership of ignoring concerns of Muslim and Palestinian communities.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

And ignoring the short, proud puffin, Handsome turned around and walked back over the river rocks as if it were the easiest thing he’d ever done.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el