as in deletion
something left out
the disk contains a selection of deleted scenes, and a couple of the omissions greatly add to the intelligibility of the movie's plot
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Recent Examples of omission
What’s Not In There were some intriguing omissions.
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
Don't by accident or by omission hurt our Mexican sources, partners.
—Michael Wayland, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
But some of its additions and adaptations to the company’s arguments are either transparently flawed or completely implausible, and its omissions raise questions about what exactly the company’s trying to argue.
—Ryan Finley, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Melamed, a former Israeli security official, said the omission was not accidental and that Arab leaders understood that agreements with Hamas had consistently been broken.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
Don't by accident or by omission hurt our Mexican sources, partners.
—Michael Wayland, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
But some of its additions and adaptations to the company’s arguments are either transparently flawed or completely implausible, and its omissions raise questions about what exactly the company’s trying to argue.
—Ryan Finley, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Melamed, a former Israeli security official, said the omission was not accidental and that Arab leaders understood that agreements with Hamas had consistently been broken.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omission
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This effort, driven by executive orders, has led to the deletion or archiving of tens of thousands of pages that recognized the contributions of women, LGBTQ+ people and people of color.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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By default, the shredder just overwrites data once before deletion, which is enough to prevent forensic software from recovering the data.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Omission.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omission. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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