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

Even more so, Hahn said Mamdani is leaving out the concerns of swaths of New Yorkers, “Where are the senior citizens? Where are the parents?” she asked.

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At the time, some suspected that the shift could lower rates by leaving out kids who previously qualified, but that didn’t materialize, researchers said.

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“You think I’m gonna leave out something that might make people understand what it was like at a point when women were dying all the time?” she asks.

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But for its California-specific estimate, the data wasn’t available to do the latter, potentially leaving out a big chunk of the statewide shortage.

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An administrative records census could “leave out a lot of people who are not in official record systems,” Van Hook said, including undocumented immigrants and “people who don’t really want to be found.”

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Related Words

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