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walk away

verb

  1. to leave, esp callously and disregarding someone else's distress
  2. walk away with
    to achieve or win easily
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"We've got so much opportunity in Australia, and to walk away from it would be so sad."

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I walked away from the brief plea, and rudimentary roadmap, for a renaissance of house parties that the queer experience was not part of her understanding of American social life.

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As he walked away, Rodriguez clutched a pair of worn composition books — in them, business plans to get himself and his neighbors off the street.

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“When he speaks to me, he always gives me a little bit of insight about life in general, and I walk away from his presence humbled. Extremely humbled.”

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The failure lay with the UK's "elites and our leaders" who had walked away from their responsibility to tackle the climate crisis, Hallam claimed.

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