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Dismiss in sentence

349 examples of Dismiss in a sentence

If I essentialize gender for you today, then you can dismiss what I have to say.
If you saw these women on the street in their faded clothes, you might dismiss them as poor and simple.
Now science may dismiss this methodology, but Polynesian navigators use it today because it provides them an accurate determination of the angle and direction of their vessel.
And you know, you snub them or you dismiss them, and like, "Yeah, whatever."
But one version makes it easy to dismiss Africa as hopeless, while the other fuels hope that a billion people can continue to make progress towards prosperity.
I think it's too easy to dismiss the whole of religion that way.
And the state has the discretion to dismiss criminal charges, enter lax plea deals and otherwise remove a victim's voice from the process, because again, a state theoretically represents the interests of all citizens collectively and not any one citizen individually.
And I wondered, what made my dreams so easy to dismiss?
Science starts with observation, but the trick is to identify the patterns and signatures that we might otherwise dismiss as myth or coincidence, isolate them, and test them with scientific rigor.
In fact, whenever you bring it up in a debate about surveillance, people instantaneously dismiss it as inapplicable, and what they say is, "Oh, well in '1984,' there were monitors in people's homes, they were being watched at every given moment, and that has nothing to do with the surveillance state that we face."
By our standards, some would dismiss these people as primitive.
Since it’s tough to really know how hard our peers work, how difficult they find certain tasks, or how much they doubt themselves, there’s no easy way to dismiss feelings that we’re less capable than the people around us.
But networks are also not just a new trend, and it's too easy for us to dismiss it as such.
Let's not dismiss the goals or slide into pessimism; let's hold them to that promise.
Neurodiversity is the idea that because all our brains show differences in structure and function, we shouldn't be so quick to label every deviation from "the norm" as a pathological disorder or dismiss people living with these variations as "defective."
But it would be a mistake to dismiss the significance of ancient Athenian democracy on the basis of whom it excluded.
If we dismiss these new natures as not acceptable or trashy or no good, we might as well just pave them over.
But before you dismiss them, let me say, they're not going to solve the issues, but they will show us how.
And unfortunately, most scripts aren't as easy to dismiss as that one.
They dismiss the rest of us who have ruined the world as the Younger Brothers.
We just dismiss it out of our consciousness.
During the hurricane season of 2017, media outlets had to actually assign reporters to dismiss fake information about the weather forecast.
The evaluators were also quick to dismiss their accomplishments.
It's easy to dismiss this as the perhaps well-intentioned but ultimately benighted musings of an eighteenth century scientist working in the pre-Darwinian era.
We kind of dismiss them.
But at some point, because it was too difficult or too painful, we decided to dismiss our natural ability to deal with failure and replace it with a lower acceptance level.
They dismiss an interesting interaction by saying, you know, "That’s just happening because they’re acting it out."
So we shouldn't dismiss this because it's an enormous opportunity to use these sorts of results, or these random loose trials from the last thousand years about what has impacts on our health.
So it's important for us to call this pain "typical" instead of "normal," because when we say it's normal, it's easier to dismiss.
So we can't just uniformly dismiss all patterns like that.
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