sweep aside

phrasal verb

swept aside; sweeping aside; sweeps aside
: to treat (something) as not important : to ignore (something)
He swept aside questions about his son's arrest.
He swept aside their objections, refusing to change his plans.

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All this was swept aside by the French Revolution, the Reign of Terror, and the Napoleonic Wars that followed. Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025 Other governments punished for failing to handle inflation included the Conservatives in the United Kingdom, swept aside by the Labour Party in a landslide election, and Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, which suffered the second-worst election result in its history. Isabella M. Weber, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2025 The rule could be easily swept aside by the incoming Trump administration, which has sought to roll back Biden climate regulations. Daniel Moore, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025 Gray, for his part, wants to sweep aside moral-foundations theory, plural, and replace it with moral-foundation theory, singular. Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for sweep aside 

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“Sweep aside.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweep%20aside. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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