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
At one point, I asked how the programmers went about selecting the 183,000 books and leaving aside all the other books.
From Slate • Sep. 26, 2023
"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
“Although prohibition is the rule almost everywhere in the world, alternative models that emerged several years ago address consumption from a rights perspective, leaving aside the criminal system,” the group said in a statement.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2022
Just this, apparently, is what it means to level down all types of interest to the hedonistic, leaving aside as "extra-economic" those that too palpably resist the operation.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.