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leave out

British  

verb

  1. to cause to remain in the open

    you can leave your car out tonight

  2. to omit or exclude

"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
leave out Idioms  

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

Example Sentences

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But when I had told him about Shanghai Chic—leaving out the part about modeling—he’d been pleased with the scheme to rent pieces to Formann’s.

From Literature

Harder than bringing in or leaving out any player is to replace an entire plan.

From BBC

I told them what had happened, leaving out nothing that I thought would help.

From Literature

When engineers leave out too much to save money, bright colors can’t always make up for it.

From The Wall Street Journal

When climate models leave out calcifying plankton, they may miss key steps in the global carbon cycle.

From Science Daily

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