turn a blind eye to something

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Governments turn a blind eye to the thousands of poverty-stricken families that migrate to the forest every year.

Both his parents indulged him, particularly his mother. Whereas Nicolae preferred to turn a blind eye to his son's misdemeanors, which were so unlike his own abstemious and dedicated youth.

Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem. He would prefer to turn a blind eye to the problem of asylum seekers around the world.

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