gloss over something

Examples of glossed

glossed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It is especially alert to inconsistencies or slippages, but also to places where disagreements are unconvincingly resolved or controversial issues are glossed over.
In both conditions the target words occurred three more times in the text after the first glossed occurrence.
The data (masterfully transcribed and glossed) and the presentation are characterized by remarkable clarity.
It is also true that the power of a notation lies in its ability to allow decisions to be glossed over or left locally undetermined.
Discussions about questions that have vexed historians of culture and resistance under dictatorships elsewhere, are glossed over.
These are usually glossed as unintelligible syllables if they are transcribed at all.
Important phases and aspects of selfhood are thus lost or glossed over without sufficient emphasis.
The discussions are in the main well illustrated with language examples, separated from the body of the text and adequately glossed.
The thorny question of the integrability of demand functions is glossed over rather too swiftly.
As it turns out, evolutionary psychologists have glossed over it as well.
Zero forms have been recorded in the database where the is glossed.
Culture appears here as an enormous repertoire of typified experiences, glossed together as 'normal events'.
Wars often magnify underlying currents in society, and issues which in peace-time may be glossed over, become more clearly delineated in wartime.
The former is based on simple binary systems of oppositions and can be glossed as the preserve of autonomy.
Thoroughly glossed so as to maximize accessibility and impact, these graphics create cultural texture.
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