gloss over
Example Sentences
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That also has unsettling contextual implications that the writers can’t gloss over.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
It was the kind of routine email that employees would normally gloss over.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
On the day itself, reporters tend to gloss over those opening pages afterwards, because the choices are more newsworthy than the argument.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
If you’re in early retirement — or close to it — you don’t want to gloss over the announcement of new tax brackets for 2026 as next year’s problem.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 10, 2025
There was a warder behind each of us, and I decided I would simply gloss over what she had said, and mumbled, “Ah, well, Ma, it is nothing.”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
