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look the other way
verb as in condone
verb as in disregard
Strong matches
verb as in ignore
verb as in neglect
Strong matches
verb as in overlook
Example Sentences
Most people had simply tuned it out because it didn’t affect them, a formula that ran out of runway for Trump when his circuslike management of the COVID-19 pandemic finally cost him some support from people otherwise inclined to look the other way.
Having spent some time living in authoritarian societies, what I can tell you is that it is quite easy to go about your business and look the other way when the unmarked vans come to disappear the local dissidents and then return a few days later to drop their bodies back off with their families, along with some preposterous excuse for what happened.
If they discover that their canvassers falsely inflated their numbers, they may owe money back, giving them good reason to look the other way instead.
Fans are questioning whether the official site had taken adequate steps to prevent this, or whether it chose to look the other way.
“What is undeniable — for those who don’t look the other way — is that it has repeatedly violated those standards over the last 7 months.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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