push aside
idiom
: to stop worrying or thinking about (something)
He pushed aside his fear of rejection and asked her out on a date.
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So too with a hyper-focus on investments, which can push aside core elements of our financial health, like life insurance.
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Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Several Chinese commentators are convinced that the U.S. is self-destructing under Trump and China is well-placed to push aside its peer rival at little cost to itself.
—Shyam Saran, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Don't push aside important feelings just to keep things light and easy.
—Danijela Pilic, Glamour, 24 June 2025
Moreover, tensions are emerging among Russian elites as a result of Putin’s efforts to push aside existing business leaders, bureaucrats, and others in favor of loyalists who adhere to the regime’s ideology or at least pay lip service to it, such as war veterans.
—Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
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Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Several Chinese commentators are convinced that the U.S. is self-destructing under Trump and China is well-placed to push aside its peer rival at little cost to itself.
—Shyam Saran, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Don't push aside important feelings just to keep things light and easy.
—Danijela Pilic, Glamour, 24 June 2025
Moreover, tensions are emerging among Russian elites as a result of Putin’s efforts to push aside existing business leaders, bureaucrats, and others in favor of loyalists who adhere to the regime’s ideology or at least pay lip service to it, such as war veterans.
—Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
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“Push aside.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/push%20aside. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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