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as in forgets
to fail to give proper attention to
ignoring your health now will haunt you further down the road
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as in forgives
to dismiss as of little importance
although the movie is a cinematic tour de force, one can't ignore the fact that it seriously distorts history
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Recent Examples of ignores
For most companies and CEOs, the metrics would be preposterously out of reach — among them are an eight-fold increase in market valuation and a 30-fold increase in earnings — but that ignores Musk’s ability to marshal investor enthusiasm and pull off new product launches.
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
But this framing ignores reality.
—Israel Melendez Ayala, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
In another odd choice, Fıratoğlu ignores the language varieties spoken in the region where the film is set, Kurdish being the primary one.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Yet, this ignores that there is a rapid adoption of ESG practices among Bangladeshi businesses.
—Vaishali Nigam Sinha, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
That sets up a showdown over expiring Obamacare subsidies and other health-care funding priorities, with Democrats vowing to block any measure that ignores them and some moderate Republicans signaling openness to a deal to avoid steep premium hikes for millions of Americans.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2025
The column ignores real costs like housing shortages, strained services, and economic impacts on working Americans.
—Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 14 Sep. 2025
My husband ignores my entreaties.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
This perspective ignores the need for people to come to decisions together about truth and reality.
—Sara Giordano, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
But this framing ignores reality.
—Israel Melendez Ayala, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
In another odd choice, Fıratoğlu ignores the language varieties spoken in the region where the film is set, Kurdish being the primary one.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Yet, this ignores that there is a rapid adoption of ESG practices among Bangladeshi businesses.
—Vaishali Nigam Sinha, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
That sets up a showdown over expiring Obamacare subsidies and other health-care funding priorities, with Democrats vowing to block any measure that ignores them and some moderate Republicans signaling openness to a deal to avoid steep premium hikes for millions of Americans.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2025
The column ignores real costs like housing shortages, strained services, and economic impacts on working Americans.
—Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 14 Sep. 2025
My husband ignores my entreaties.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
This perspective ignores the need for people to come to decisions together about truth and reality.
—Sara Giordano, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ignores
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The thing about bullying is that the bully typically has no memory of it later, while the wounded party never forgets.—
Rachel Kushner,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
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Dictatorships exhaust themselves through destruction, but democracies adapt and grow stronger—a lesson Washington sometimes forgets.—
Ken Silverstein,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The organization purchases medical debt for pennies on the dollar and then forgives it, focusing on individuals with high debt-to-income ratios.—
Beth Warren,
The Tennessean,
15 Aug. 2025
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What a leader neglects in the dark will inevitably be revealed in the light, often at staggering costs.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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This narrative neglects the systemic nature of discrimination, Black lived experiences, and ongoing activism.—
Time,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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There are two adult pools, one with an infinity pool option that overlooks the beach.—
Essence,
Essence,
12 Sep. 2025
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The land appropriately overlooks Omaha Beach where many of the Americans lost their lives.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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But residents oppose reckless upzoning that disregards the character of our neighborhood.—
Patricia Sharkey,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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Parker said the new state program will make amends for a road-funding formula that disregards lane and traffic counts, sending the same amount of money to a two-lane road in a rural county and a six-lane road in Indianapolis.—
Jordan Smith,
IndyStar,
7 Dec. 2024
Verb
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In the sketch, Bargatze plays George Washington and explains the confusing nature of modern-day America.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Whereas previous metal pollution records extracted their silt, or evidence from areas far from their sources— upland peat cores or mountain and polar glaciers, Cambridge specifies –the most recent data comes from the epicenter of production, a paleochannel of the River Ure, Cambridge explains.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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The survey then gets adjusted to try to capture the parts of the labor market the survey misses.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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But any delays could mean that Wheeler misses a significant chunk of next season.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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This year's installer icon is one of the ones that finally justifies years' worth of effort spent tracking and talking about the changes in macOS installer icons.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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Throughout, in interviews with Costa, Malafaia justifies his political aspiration with Biblical parables.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Ignores.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ignores. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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