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
City's win leaves them only two points behind the Gunners, who showed signs of creaking under pressure as they cast aside a two-goal lead to draw with relegation certainties Wolverhampton Wanderers in midweek.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
More than 50 different songs appear, sometimes impatiently cast aside by Mr. Luhrmann so he can jiggle and rotate his kaleidoscope again.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
If a product or enterprise doesn’t constantly reinvent itself, it is superseded, cast aside, abandoned without sentiment in favor of something bigger, newer, and, alas, nearly always uglier.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
