Sentence examples for to dismiss something from inspiring English sources

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to dismiss something

verb

To discharge; to end the employment or service of.

  • The company dismissed me after less than a year.

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A petition to dismiss something".

There's no intellectual basis for trying to dismiss something as being merely fun.

It's easy to dismiss something you don't know about; one can rest contentedly in the solipsism of ignorance: "I don't know about x, therefore x doesn't exist".

In current American usage, the phrase "that's history" is commonly used to dismiss something as unimportant, of no relevance to current concerns, and, despite an immense investment in the teaching and writing of history, the general level of historical knowledge in our society is abysmally low.

The fact that these modern batteries are also lighter (lead is, after all, one of the densest elements in the periodic table) has made them the obvious choices for powering truly serious electric vehicles, as opposed to the ones that potter about in warehouses and on suburban streets.But it is a mistake to dismiss something just because it is old.

In the fine opening essay justifying his humanism, he writes: "Any attempt to do justice to our humanity must take into account religious beliefs: to dismiss something profound and constant in our humanity would be a strange attitude for a humanist".

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"It seemed crazy to just dismiss something like that".

How often do you quickly dismiss something you did well?

Don't dismiss something out of hand because you think it's either beneath you or outside of the realm of where your interests lie.

Don't automatically dismiss something because it does not fit neatly into your current vision of the world.

It is an easy subject to dismiss, as something on the feminized margins, at a time of war.

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