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That also has unsettling contextual implications that the writers can’t gloss over.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

As my experience over the past few weeks has shown, we can benefit from such exchanges without having to gloss over or ignore our differences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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

Somehow, he could gloss over the whole appearing/disappearing part of the story, just as he’d glossed over it when Katherine was telling about the vanishing man in Mr. Reardon’s office.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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