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
“Leaving aside the human issues, leaving aside the law issues, we think that would be very destructive economically,” said Adam Posen, the president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2024
"The issue is how to guarantee a partnership that is beneficial for both sides, leaving aside the decision that we will take on the BRI," she added.
From Reuters • Sep. 10, 2023
“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
Even leaving aside the discomforts which are always allied to pretentiousness, the poor rich woman has a hard time of it.
From Town Life in Australia by Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell