brush aside
phrasal verb
brushed aside; brushing aside; brushes aside
: to treat (something) as not important : to ignore or dismiss (something)
He brushed aside questions about his son's arrest.
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But he can’t be entirely brushed aside after a season with 60 receptions for 884 yards.
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Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2025
The move comes as many Republicans, including Johnson, have defended or brushed aside President Trump’s pardons this week of nearly all rioters involved in the Jan. 6 attack, including those who assaulted police officers.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
Hoover brushed aside the arguments of his own economists who warned that other nations would respond with their own tariffs, touching off a trade war in which every country would lose.
—Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2025
Nathan Howard | Reuters Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick brushed aside the idea that some imports from certain countries will win exemptions from the new U.S. tariffs.
—Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,christina Wilkie,michele Luhn, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
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Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2025
The move comes as many Republicans, including Johnson, have defended or brushed aside President Trump’s pardons this week of nearly all rioters involved in the Jan. 6 attack, including those who assaulted police officers.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
Hoover brushed aside the arguments of his own economists who warned that other nations would respond with their own tariffs, touching off a trade war in which every country would lose.
—Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2025
Nathan Howard | Reuters Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick brushed aside the idea that some imports from certain countries will win exemptions from the new U.S. tariffs.
—Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,christina Wilkie,michele Luhn, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Brush aside.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brush%20aside. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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