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
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
“Markets may be willing to cast aside fears of a wider credit crisis brewing, but additional announcements of similar events could bring a fresh bout of volatility,” Rostro’s Joshua Mahony says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
If a product or enterprise doesn’t constantly reinvent itself, it is superseded, cast aside, abandoned without sentiment in favor of something bigger, newer, and, alas, nearly always uglier.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
