Usually means: Minimize importance, superficially cover details.
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  3. gloss over: Collins English Dictionary
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  11. gloss over: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gloss over)

verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To treat something with less care than it in some ways deserves; to ignore, or at least to discount or dismiss for the current purposes.

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