LOOK THE OTHER WAY Definition & Meaning

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Deliberately overlook something, especially something of an illicit nature. For example, They're not really entitled to a discount but the sales manager decided to look the other way . This expression uses the other way in the sense of 鈥渁way from what is normal or expected.鈥�

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Now DOJ lawyers are being directed to find and prosecute DEI programs, in violation of the First Amendment; to strip birthright citizenship from children, in violation of the 14th; and to look the other way if American businesses foster corruption abroad.

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鈥淚 don鈥檛 want any contact, ever, with any police officer. I see a police car, I look the other way,鈥� he said.

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But I can just look the other way to some degree.

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Willis asked that Trump cease using his music at rallies, saying he "can no longer look the other way."

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"Why should we look the other way when it is Israel committing crimes? A viable state cannot be built on the expulsion of another people who have as much claim to that territory as you have," he wrote about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

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