look past

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look past

verb looks past · looking past · looked past

  1. transitive To see potential beyond obvious flaws; to consider something more than something else. They were willing to look past their differences and began to work together.

    Similar: look beyond, see past

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verb see potential beyond obvious flaws

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@misc{look_past_2026,
  title = {look past},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/look%20past},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}