How to Use cast aside in a Sentence

cast aside

phrasal verb
  • Additionally, businesses must cast aside the outdated, preconceived notion that outsourcing is just about cost savings.
    Craig Crisler, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Who counts as part of the public, and who is cast aside?
    Longreads, 5 May 2023
  • But the union wants to make sure that musicians can use it as a tool, and are not cast aside in the process.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
  • But that doesn’t mean that the remaining 10 players are cast aside.
    Ira Winderman, Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2024
  • But football was cast aside after the wideout wrecked his knee.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Sitting in the shade, the two men sliced the fruit open, casting aside the outer flesh and keeping the seeds with their mace covering.
    Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • But unlike human consultants, Eliza’s army of agents are low cost and easy to cast aside when the task is done.
    Michael Del Castillo, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2024
  • But there’s one type of chair that generally gets cast aside: the rocking chair.
    Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Inspired, King cast aside his prepared remarks and ad-libbed from his heart.
    Bev-Freda Jackson, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The bright yellow details of the old plug-in Mini have also been cast aside, along with the wheels designed to look like the UK’s three-pin plug socket.
    Alistair Charlton, WIRED, 21 July 2024
  • And while precedent should not lightly be cast aside, the court’s error in Smith should now be corrected.
    Adam Liptak, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • But it has always been cast aside to accommodate the demands of Zionism, even at the expense of peace.
    Yousef Munayyer, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
  • All those possibilities were cast aside on the eve of signing day when UCLA offered him a spot as a walk-on.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The four fringe states These are not the big-ticket targets for the campaigns, but some strategists in the states—and some home-state loyalists—think they were prematurely cast aside.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Cartoon though has long ago cast aside funny business to become a rare street artist to become a business leader.
    Zenger News, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • But now as in the past, a strategy that requires the United States to cast aside its values and ideals would be unwise and unrealistic.
    Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Biden also thanked union leaders for their support, and shared his plans for the future, seeking to cast aside doubts over his reelection campaign.
    Nora Eckert and Nandita Bose, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2024
  • Thanks to her, the movie’s notion of casting aside ageist preconceptions takes on a highly meta-sense of significance.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024
  • Our splintered symbiosis meant you were cast aside despite years of loyal labor, yet I was allowed to ascend.
    Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen, Longreads, 11 June 2024
  • For the Nuggets, the turn south began with the departure of Bruce Brown in 2023 free agency, a glue guy cast aside as if glue guys didn’t matter (albeit with financial constraints for Denver, as well).
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2024
  • Questionable compromises were made, and many acts felt cast aside, including The Roots.
    Time, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Even prominent Republicans eager for the party to cast aside Trump in 2024 were concerned ahead of the indictment.
    Shane Goldmacher, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • Even my mother, who ate potato chips with a spoon, cast aside her cutlery for these Sicilian delicacies.
    Julie Giuffrida, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The agreement also includes a provision to increase starting pay for part-time workers, which the union had called the most at risk in the company's workforce of being exploited and cast aside.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 26 July 2023
  • The agreement also includes a provision to increase starting pay for part-time workers, which the union had called the most at risk in the company’s workforce of being exploited and cast aside.
    Haleluya Hadero, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023
  • But despite, or perhaps because of, the enormous shadow cast by his legend, The Winter King only truly comes alive in scenes like that opener — ones that cast aside the grand and epic in favor of the raw, the intimate, the human.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Someone who, having woken from Trump’s spell, would cast aside their fear and old grievances to send the political equivalent of the Rohirrim sweeping into the battle to save Middle-earth.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Still, the Middle Eastern-British interior designer cast aside any doubts, smitten by the expansive scenery.
    Christina Poletto, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
  • There were moments, as she’s described plenty of times, that felt like setbacks of no return for her career after being cast aside for the younger, whiter talents Fox has transparently tried to groom instead.
    Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Partly in reaction to this trend, philanthropies have begun to cast aside the old paternalistic way of working and more frequently let their grantees decide what to do with their money.
    Mark Malloch-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2024

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