verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disobey/ignore an order
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Anyone who disobeys these orders will be severely punished.
ignore a reality
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They are ignoring the reality of Arab politics.
ignore a remark
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He ignored my remark and carried on working.
ignore a request
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They ignored repeated requests to leave the property.
ignore a warning
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He had ignored their warning to stay in the car.
ignore sb’s wishes
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It is important not to ignore the wishes of the patient.
ignore/disregard sb’s advice (= not do what someone tells you )
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The accident happened because she ignored their advice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
completely
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Local authorities had almost completely ignored the Norwood report of 1943.
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Serious movies with smaller budgets and smaller potential returns were almost completely ignored .
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Only a minority of pupils take part in high quality experimental science-which is often completely ignored until they are 14.
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Completely ignoring the fact you hit only flesh, which it looks like it to me.
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But that does not mean that those Old Testament rituals should now be completely ignored .
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In fact, this estimate completely ignores the value of all the other ingredients of asteroids besides iron.
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That is not to say the report has been ignored completely .
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Some of the man-apes it ignored completely , as if it was concentrating on the most promising subjects.
largely
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She would rage at the boys; they largely ignored her.
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Forbes was largely ignored until he rose in the polls.
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The debate on the role of the state has largely ignored the fact that state means more than government.
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In our view the benefits of local economic development generally have been exaggerated while the costs have been largely ignored .
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Most of these effects are simply curiosities for the network engineer and are largely ignored by the majority of designers.
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But until recently the changes were largely ignored .
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The economic literature largely ignores the fact that the public sector has devised its own alternative modes of efficiency incentive.
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The great scholars also are largely ignored for their craft skills and precise goals in scholarship.
often
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Unfortunately, just as the emotional needs of mentally disordered people are often ignored , so too are their spiritual needs.
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In regard to the use of field interviewers, the social and psychological aspects of studies are all too often ignored .
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We often ignore intuition, when it's possible that intuitive responses are our past experiences lodged in our unconscious minds.
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Yet this limitation is very often ignored sometimes deliberately, sometimes out of sheer ignorance in muddling speech and writing.
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This may seem obvious advice, but it is often ignored .
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Snoring, or other sounds that occur with regularity, are often ignored by sleepers.
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In this way, he identifies costs which anti-insider dealers have often ignored .
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We look in the door and realize that, unless they are brought to our attention, we often ignore our surroundings.
simply
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These demands were simply ignored by the municipal government.
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Lettie purposely lingered behind Patrice, fighting off her natural inclination to simply ignore the woman and brush past her.
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I sulk, I ask him why, but he simply ignores me.
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As usually happens with environmental issues, reality was simply ignored or suspended.
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He had already offered his resignation, twice, and Mr Malik had simply ignored it.
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They explicitly denied any independent role for rational women and simply ignored the whole process of reproduction.
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Science simply ignored the fact that livestock are creatures with a capacity to suffer.
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But for most, in a community that is studiously disinterested in celebrity, Simpson is simply ignored .
totally
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The document has almost totally ignored motorcycling.
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A better approach is to continue to be friendly and businesslike, while totally ignoring their petty comments.
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The youngsters learn that there is nothing to fear and, after a time, they also totally ignore the traffic noise.
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We were practically shocked our results were totally ignored .
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Otherwise we just elect a few representatives who can totally ignore our wishes for several years after we have counted the votes.
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They would rave for twenty minutes about the mouse, and totally ignore the significance of bit-mapping.
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She was, in short, too bloody much, and not only that, she was totally ignoring me.
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The neuron may totally ignore regions of visual space lacking boundaries.
virtually
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Horizontal influences have been virtually ignored in Soviet and Western historiography alike.
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But when he visits their classrooms, they virtually ignore his presence.
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In contrast, non-communicable diseases have been virtually ignored by local health departments.
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Once, this was difficult to cross; then, railways spanned it; now, air travel virtually ignores it.
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General elections have become more presidential and the mass media virtually ignore the secondary party leaders.
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Meanwhile, the cyber gods controlling the random selection virtually ignored some large districts in other areas of the state.
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Batch processes and multipurpose plants are virtually ignored .
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After months of virtually ignoring the programs, and years of well-publicized cutbacks, airlines and hotels are suddenly getting generous.
■ NOUN
advice
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It was Graham herself, ignoring strong advice from Post lawyers, who made the call.
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The fee was 25,000 - and Collins ignored the advice of a friend when he signed.
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If you routinely ignore this bit of advice , like most travelers, take a minute now and think about it.
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It's believed they were shot after ignoring advice to turn back.
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I've tried everything from ignoring them to offering advice and I don't know what to do anymore.
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I do so hope he ignores my advice .
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The Thing could be deliberately infuriating at times, but it didn't pay to ignore its advice .
evidence
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Conservative leader Tony Richmond said the study by chief executive Clive Owen had ignored crucial evidence .
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In order to keep family peace, Clemens chose to ignore early evidence that Webster was a swindler.
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To deny the importance of the family as a source of care would be to ignore the accumulated evidence of several decades.
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In our view, however, the cautious approach is not to ignore the epidemiological evidence of declining semen quality.
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Why does the Prime Minister ignore all that evidence ?
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Complexities within the Devonian have similarly been ignored for lack of evidence .
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But to ignore the evidence of differences in performance between gender or ethnic groups can lead to unjust treatment of individuals.
fact
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We can not ignore the fact that long-held attitudes were in the process of change.
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The debate on the role of the state has largely ignored the fact that state means more than government.
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The economic literature largely ignores the fact that the public sector has devised its own alternative modes of efficiency incentive.
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She was in trousers as usual, ignoring the fact that they might well be invited to dinner with the count.
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This approach ignores the fact that the taxpayer first had to acquire the right to grant sub-licenses.
issue
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The reason is not that he ignored domestic issues .
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Even more than the theories discussed before, utilitarianism ignores the problematic issue of the discourse's scientific object, the subject.
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Women should not go into hiding again and ignore this issue .
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In yet another report, Lord Hunt of Tamworth ignored the vital issue of technical standards for a future cabling system.
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Labour and the Alliance seemed to ignore the issue .
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Dozens of people had explained the need for a real opposition, but the commission simply ignored the issue .
need
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In our concern that evangelism should happen spontaneously we can not ignore the need for planning and structure.
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President Kim took the wrong course in favor of big business, ignoring the needs of the majority of the people.
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The Government perhaps ignore the need for safety, but many women take it very seriously.
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Not only did the new managers feel they neglected their family lives, they ignored their need for leisure and relaxation.
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Teams are insufficiently concerned with their own social needs , i.e. they ignore their own need for development and social maturing.
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To date, rural planners have virtually ignored the need for cooking energy.
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At the same time companies are being advised to ignore the needs of those who are well into retirement.
problem
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Most committees ignore touchy problems until they go away of their own accord.
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A three-dollar conversion would have corrected the design defect, but the corporation chose to ignore the problem .
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We do not have the choice to ignore the organisational problems that these self-sealing loops are creating.
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Pluralists ignore the problem of group formation.
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Were we to say nothing about it, or to ignore the problem that exists and the unrest in the black community?
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Others will ignore the problem and let the children sort it out themselves.
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To do so, however, would be to ignore the awkward problem of adequate representation for minority interests.
protest
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Angry villagers claim Labour-controlled Wrekin council has ignored their protests by backing the scheme.
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He bullied the school board which, in theory, employed him, and he chose to ignore the black protest .
question
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Feel free to ignore those questions that don't apply to you.
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Brazenly, Rumsfeld ignored the question , but it was an eloquent omission.
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But Svidrigailov ignores the question and starts talking about politics.
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When I ask if anything is wrong, she ignores my question .
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At first he thought she was going to ignore his question .
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Business Week is not alone in ignoring such questions .
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First, if the foregoing appears to ignore questions of democracy within the enterprise that is only because of the order of exposition.
warning
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But Berisha, tied up in an election year and basking in Western political support, ignored the warnings .
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A gutsy and popular player, Howe ignored medical warnings despite previous heart tremors.
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She ignored the outside warnings about Adrienne from the older ones who frequented the places where she sang.
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I might ignore all the warnings and even try to convince other people that lung cancer does not really exist.
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Above all why had he, Mungo, ignored the warning and involved himself?
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And for months they have ignored repeated U.S. warnings about the dangers of this new, aggressive policy.
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Those who ignore the warnings do so at their peril, however.
■ VERB
afford
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Yet at the same time he can not afford to ignore hardline opinion at home.
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It can not afford to ignore the elements of the complex.
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Only those who can afford to ignore these constraints feel capable of exercising a choice to retain a more traditional agricultural landscape.
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No left-leaning government can afford to ignore the centre-right.
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The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore .
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No later writer could afford to ignore so well-placed a source.
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He says none of the parties can afford to ignore the fact that thousands of people die of starvation each week.
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Nevertheless few expatriates can afford just to ignore this Budget.
choose
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They jointly chose to ignore their employer's orders and statutory safety regulations, by testing detonators without taking shelter.
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In order to keep family peace, Clemens chose to ignore early evidence that Webster was a swindler.
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Dame Ermengilde, her nose in the air, chose to ignore them.
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It is not that he saw and chose to ignore formal distinctions based on function or hierarchical position.
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He had chosen to ignore the fact that she took out her frustrations on Carla.
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He bullied the school board which, in theory, employed him, and he chose to ignore the black protest.
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Those companies who choose to ignore the power of a desk-top micro will do so at their peril.
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I shall refrain from doing so, though even the dust jacket has chosen to ignore that discretion.
continue
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Cross and continue up field, ignoring gate on right and bear slightly left to gate leading uphill to farm.
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Roberto Madrazo does not resign and if Pemex continues to ignore more than 63, 000 damage claims.
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Previous answers assume that evolution will continue unchanged they ignore developments such as genetic engineering.
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When I continued to ignore him, he got out of the car and opened the back door.
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Offstage she was scrupulously polite to him, an exercise that was totally wasted as he continued to ignore her.
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Dario continued to ignore me as he moved toward the bed slowly, I thought like some one in a trance.
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Unfortunately, they also continue to be ignored by those who produce official reports and government guidelines.
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The stock market continues to ignore everything.
decide
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The Archbishop's implied command that he leave the matter alone he decided to ignore .
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I decided to ignore my hair and clean my other dress.
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If Anna wanted to be sullen, Liz decided she was best ignored .
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For some reason my first thought is that it is Glendenning, who has decided to ignore the dark-skinned judge and snoop.
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Then I finally realised you could see it, but you'd decided simply to ignore it.
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I decided to try to ignore it as I did not want anything to distract me from my purpose.
tend
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At each stage goals shift in importance and organizations tend to ignore this fact.
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The old laws were so irrelevant to post-Soviet life that even the police tended to ignore them.
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Problems that can not be resolved by reasoned debate have tended to be ignored in the hope that they will go away.
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Some patients with right-brain strokes tend to ignore anything on the left side of their visual world.
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Reich tended to ignore the interconnection, but it was an important one for Freud's sociology.
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It's just that now I tend to ignore it.
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Grace, however, tended to ignore Luke when he came to stay, doing her duty without love or warmth.
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More confident horses tend to ignore the other horses in such situations - unless they are stallions.
try
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Slumping back on the pillow, she tried to ignore it.
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In fact, they tried to ignore their ethnicity altogether.
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The only way was to push straight ahead and try to ignore them.
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Me, trying to ignore it all while I section a grapefruit for the teen-ager.
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Here again the technique is to try to ignore the microphone and talk directly to the interviewer.
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She considered, trying to ignore the jangling hangers, with their cold, quick touch.
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I tried to ignore the now more muted sounds of their inmates, keeping my eyes firmly on the floor.
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I've tried everything from ignoring them to offering advice and I don't know what to do anymore.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ignoring my warnings, he dived straight into the shallow water.
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Don't ignore me when I'm talking to you!
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It was very stupid of you to ignore your mother's advice.
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Just ignore him and he'll stop pestering you.
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My father's always telling me what to do, but I usually just ignore him.
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Now that she had lost all her wealth, she was ignored by former friends.
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She ignored my question and continued her story.
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Someone made a rude noise, which the teacher decided to ignore .
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The school board has continually ignored the complaints of parents.
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The waiter totally ignored Glen and served a girl who had come up beside him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the tree burned, it sighed at what happiness it had ignored, and each sigh made a loud popping noise.
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But an alternative explanation had also come to him which he knew he should not ignore .
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Fox is a greedy billionaire who ignores his daughter and ends up turning her into gold.
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Habermas rejects this analysis because the level of communicative action can have an impact on the process of modernization that Marcuse ignored.
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He ignored Cranston's excited pleas to hurry and went over to the window, unrolling them carefully.
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It is equally wrong, however, to think it is possible to ignore the practical dimensions of life.
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Olivia was sitting with a group of social admin people, who were all ignoring her.