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
"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 • Sep. 10, 2023
“But leaving aside the relevance and impact that they might have on trans rights cases and on nonbinary people, intersex people deserve their own lives. They want to be advocated for, too.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2023
Both in the Vulgate and the King James versions there are passages which, leaving aside all question of doctrine, it is sacrilege to try to improve.
From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Egan, Maurice Francis