leave alone
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With that feedback, executives then determined which menu items to take prices up on and which to leave alone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
While she is happy with the cuts so far, she hopes they leave alone social security - the monthly government payments that she and 67 million retired or disabled Americans live off.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025
Their first order of business was to review every dish to see which they could jettison, which they could leave alone and which they could improve.
From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2021
But I would prefer if they’d leave alone my delicious lime-flavored tortilla chips, please.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2020
Instead my hands go to my hairdo, the one area of my body my prep team had been told to leave alone.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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