Ignore and Mistake

Ignore

Ignore verb - To fail to give proper attention to.

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Mistake and ignore are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mistake" instead a verb "Ignore".

Nearby Words: ignorance, ignoring

Mistake verb - To fail to understand the true or actual meaning of.

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Ignore and mistake are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ignore" instead a verb "Mistake".

Nearby Words: mistaken, mistakenly, mistaking

person	ignore person	mistake person
character	ignore character	mistake character
people	ignore people	mistake people
time	ignore time	mistake time
Other words: way, characters, half, game, story, player.

So that one "mistake" might not be as wrong as it seemed at the time... if we ignore that it lived several million years before the beginning of mankind anyway.

Source: Artistic License Paleontology / Live-Action Films
Bonus points for including period music, an Orion Pictures logo and VHS artifacts; if you ignore the obvious parody bits, you could easily mistake it for an actual '80s trailer from an old videocassette.

Source: Retraux
Continuity Lockout: Newcomers to Touhou often mistake Silent Sinner in Blue for a standalone story and ignore Cage in Lunatic Runagate entirely, resulting in an unsatisfying ending and many events that lack context.

Source: Manga / Touhou Bougetsushou

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