setting aside

Example Sentences

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But setting aside the burden of proof required in a courtroom, this outcome was hard for many in the court of public opinion to accept.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The government in England is setting aside £10m a year to pay for children and young people's travel costs up to the age of 24.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

As it happens, Gov. Gavin Newsom has so far resisted setting aside for education a multibillion-dollar tranche of funding that California education advocates say is due.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

The study revisits existing data while setting aside a common assumption that humans are inherently harmful to natural systems.

From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026

She spread the silk on the ground and began the process of dividing and counting, dividing and counting and setting aside, which she’d done so often as a passionate, curious teenager, and hardly ever since.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman