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turn a blind eye

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  1. refuse to acknowledge
    He turns a blind eye to the injustices in his office

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  • The NRA also claims that more dual carriageways and motorways will save lives, suggesting that the nonconformists are, if not anti-life, at least prepared to turn a blind eye to protect their own interests.
  • Limits at which police turn a blind eye will now be lowered dramatically. The Sun
  • They turn a blind eye to shoddy work or essays downloaded from the internet. The Sun
  • Management often turn a blind eye to bullying in the workplace.
  • So if you catch the royal ladies-in-waiting emptying a few canapes into their handbags today, please turn a blind eye. Elizabeth: The Zirconian Age
  • Schools cannot continue to turn a blind eye in light of these new shocking statistics.
  • Other officers could be bribed to turn a blind eye, said a restaurant owner in the port of Algeciras.
  • Other officers could be bribed to turn a blind eye, said a restaurant owner in the port of Algeciras.
  • Despotic governments conduct campaigns to win influential seats while developing nations turn a blind eye to their human rights violating colleagues in order to win assembly votes. Thor Halvorssen: Renovating the Rules of UN Backroom Diplomacy
  • It's fashionable to turn a blind eye to the exponential growth of executive rewards beyond the dreams of avarice that bear no relationship to economic worth.
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