setting aside
Example Sentences
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Donaghy said there was "a culture of dismissing and setting aside patients and families who raise concerns as being difficult, abrasive and denying people access to be heard".
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
According to a 2022 piece written by The Hollywood Reporter, the big summer tentpole films were setting aside “$150 million or more on global marketing spend for the biggest titles.”
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
“But today justice took a different form: setting aside a wrongful conviction and proclaiming a man factually innocent of attempted murder charges brought over a decade before.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
For married couples, that could include contributing to a spousal IRA on behalf of the nonworking spouse or setting aside additional retirement savings with both partners’ futures in mind.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 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
