turn a blind eye
Example Sentences
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It’s easy to turn a blind eye when much of the mining and manufacturing takes place in Africa, Asia or South America.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
But at the same time, the law can’t allow them to turn a blind eye to their children’s problems.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2026
"As a responsible government, we cannot turn a blind eye to these heartbreaking statistics. These are not just numbers, they represent human lives, the hope of many Ghanaian families and our nation."
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
“We didn’t turn a blind eye to this, we invested in it. We didn’t talk about it, we leaned in.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
At sixteen years old, even Durmstrang felt it could no longer turn a blind eye to the twisted experiments of Gellert Grindelwald, and he was expelled.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
