ignore

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There is just too much incentives for profs to ignore biases in their research.

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Quick take

refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ignore gathered in one view.

verb

refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"

verb

bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"

verb

fail to notice

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ignore.

verb

refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"

verb

bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"

verb

fail to notice

verb

give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors"

verb

be ignorant of or in the dark about

Example sentences

There is just too much incentives for profs to ignore biases in their research.

The browser could ignore unless it was capable of displaying in-browser of course.

I was nodding along, when suddenly...> One alternative is to ignore iOS and OS X users.

Organizations that follow the letter of the law but ignore the principles behind them should inspire our strongest contempt.

Nothing can help you if you deliberately ignore warnings, and deliberately install Trojan horse malware.

It's a huge number of people that most of the technorati ignore - Facebook captured that market practically by accident, and Pinterest is exploding because somebody finally thought to actually aim in that direction on purpose.

If you need a tl;dr, or if you read it quickly, this is the most important line in the post:> What you end up with is the situation where you, as a conference goer, walk up to a booth and, because youre no stranger to how this works, ignore any attractive woman and talk directly to a male at the booth.

I don't really hang out in environments where they're easy to obtain anymore, but if I ever find myself in one, even though I know on some rational level that I'd never touch them again, part of me is in great distress because I'd have a hard time saying no if they were offered to me.\nI think these types of articles tend to ignore the longer-lasting, psychologically debilitating consequences of addiction.

But sometimes one is dominant, and if the gray beast gets its teeth all the way into you, it takes away not just positive feelings but everything until you're just a walking shell so empty you can't even fully comprehend what you've lost.> The converse, when the black beast has you, can be much like you describe - you can still feel a kind of dreadful, frenzied joy in short moments as you cling desperately to the edge of the sucking dark hole in yourself, trying to ignore the beast's whispers that any pleasure is a lie that will just make the coming pain more stark and inescapable and utterly deserved.> They're liars, but they're good at it.