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 β Nov. 13, 2025
He elaborated on how the summer 2022 collapse of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital screwed with his business, leaving aside a 3AC co-founder’s accusation that FTX was in large part responsible for its downfall.
From Slate β Oct. 27, 2023
"The issue is how to guarantee a partnership that is beneficial for both sides, leaving aside the decision that we will take on the BRI," she added.
From Reuters β Sep. 10, 2023
“Although prohibition is the rule almost everywhere in the world, alternative models that emerged several years ago address consumption from a rights perspective, leaving aside the criminal system,” the group said in a statement.
From Seattle Times β Feb. 3, 2022
Everybody will agree that, leaving aside the question of the quality of instruction, such a relation of the teacher to the parents and peasants is most just, natural, and desirable.
From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Count