cast aside
Example Sentences
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“You take what the world cast aside and breathe spirit into it, insisting that the overlooked can speak, that the discarded can testify, that the everyday can dream.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
It will fall to other parents to say that those who have cast aside the question of children’s well-being speak neither for our nation’s traditions nor for children themselves.
From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026
But somewhere along the line, economics was all but consumed by math, and things everybody had always known—that humans are fickle, emotional, bad at reasoning, captives of their prior mistakes, etc.—were forgotten or cast aside.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
He said the judges in Chicago had no legal or factual basis to block the deployment, and he urged the court to cast aside their rulings.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025
His cloak he had cast aside upon the seat.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
