Antonyms for turn a blind eyeturn a blind eye

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Princeton's WordNet

1. turn a blind eyeverb

   refuse to acknowledge

   "He turns a blind eye to the injustices in his office"

How to use turn a blind eye in a sentence?

1. Kitty Block:

   World leaders meeting in Japan this week should not turn a blind eye to the cruel assault planned on whales of the North Pacific.

2. Xavier Becerra:

   Crimes like those alleged in this complaint have no place in our society. Period, we must not turn a blind eye to sexual violence and trafficking in our state.

3. Chandan Kumar:

   The kilns themselves are mostly illegal, so keeping track of them is hard and they keep no records, there's a lot of trafficking and bonded labor in the industry, but it is a profitable business and owners are usually politically connected, so the authorities turn a blind eye.

4. John Kerry:

   The international community cannot turn a blind eye to such barbarism.

5. Anne Bayefsky:

   These same authorities on racism champion the U.N.'s racist Durban Declaration, support the U.N.'s rampant discriminatory treatmentof the Jewish state, and turn a blind eye to modern forms of anti-Semitism. So their sudden concern with anti-Semitism in the United States appears disingenuous, to say the least.

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