leaving aside
Example Sentences
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If you gift your daughter the house — leaving aside the debate over using “gift” as an adjective — your daughter would lose her step-up in basis.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2025
Even leaving aside the legal constraints, which are often breached in that context, nobody thinks that the secretary of defense on their own can authorize that kind of use of the military.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2025
In fact, it’s a little edgy for traditional church folk — even leaving aside the gospel remix of “Savage” — but that’s by design.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
"I don't expect much of a change, leaving aside all of the stuff going on with the outgoing CEO," Patterson said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 28, 2023
St. Ives, Newquay, Padstow, and Bude, leaving aside for the moment the smaller ones, or those like Boscastle and Tintagel, which stand in a class by themselves and have been already referred to.
From Cornwall by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
