leave alone
Example Sentences
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With that feedback, executives then determined which menu items to take prices up on and which to leave alone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
He said Bedrock could have outsourced all of its Seattle-area manufacturing to Los Angeles, but concluded that the three “core” products remaining in the Seattle area made economic sense to leave alone.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2023
Their first order of business was to review every dish to see which they could jettison, which they could leave alone and which they could improve.
From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2021
Fire suppression has become a dangerous game of whack-a-mole, a race to choose which fires are worth containing, which to leave alone and which must be abandoned to protect human life.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2020
The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visible spectrum at full brightness.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
