sweep aside

verb

swept aside; sweeping aside; sweeps aside
: to treat (something) as not important : to ignore (something)
He swept aside questions about his son's arrest.
He swept aside their objections, refusing to change his plans.

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Rules that were supposed to keep this from happening are swept aside. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026 And the social-media platform is the only way to understand how all of those normal gatekeepers have been swept aside. — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026 Russia may have been thwarted in its immediate bid to sweep aside the Ukrainian president and swallow its neighbor whole. — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026 The framework trains robots to use their entire arm instead of just a gripper, allowing machines to gather or sweep aside clusters of objects in ways that resemble human movement. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for sweep aside

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“Sweep aside.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweep%20aside. Accessed 9 Jul. 2026.

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