leave out

verb

1. to cause to remain in the open

   you can leave your car out tonight

2. to omit or exclude

Idioms and Phrases

Omit, fail to include, as in This sentence doesn't make sense; a key word has been left out . [Late 1400s]

Example Sentences

Most people only post their successes and leave out the debt, sacrifices, and hard work that might go on behind the scenes.

From Salon

"Most people leave out bicarbonate/CO₂ when studying DNA oxidation because it is difficult to deal with the constant outgassing of CO₂," Burrows said.

From Science Daily

“I’ve read a ton of celebrity memoirs so I’m leaving out the boring s—,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

JD Vance is a brilliant savant, according to some, while other headlines call him an idiot and leave out the “savant.”

From Salon

By leaving out a discussion of ways to loosen the housing market for tenants, the report misses a crucial, and largely unsubsidized, element to limit the flow of people into homelessness, Ward said.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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