leaving aside
Example Sentences
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If you gift your daughter the house — leaving aside the debate over using “gift” as an adjective — your daughter would lose her step-up in basis.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2025
Even leaving aside the legal constraints, which are often breached in that context, nobody thinks that the secretary of defense on their own can authorize that kind of use of the military.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2025
“But leaving aside the relevance and impact that they might have on trans rights cases and on nonbinary people, intersex people deserve their own lives. They want to be advocated for, too.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
In fact, it’s a little edgy for traditional church folk — even leaving aside the gospel remix of “Savage” — but that’s by design.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
Everybody will agree that, leaving aside the question of the quality of instruction, such a relation of the teacher to the parents and peasants is most just, natural, and desirable.
From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Count
