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
But, mirroring basically every year, there were glaring omissions.
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Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Perhaps a surprise omission from Pochettino’s squad for the last two USMNT games, the in-form striker responded in the best way possible on Saturday as his Coventry City team went up against Josh Sargent’s Norwich.
—Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
The omission was wrong — whether or not it was related to those altercations — as was the employee’s failure to understand that this is not a business occasion.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
That's why Brian King — an epidemiologist and former head of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products — says omissions of smoking, tobacco and other nicotine products make no sense.
—Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 14 Sep. 2025
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Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Perhaps a surprise omission from Pochettino’s squad for the last two USMNT games, the in-form striker responded in the best way possible on Saturday as his Coventry City team went up against Josh Sargent’s Norwich.
—Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
The omission was wrong — whether or not it was related to those altercations — as was the employee’s failure to understand that this is not a business occasion.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
That's why Brian King — an epidemiologist and former head of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products — says omissions of smoking, tobacco and other nicotine products make no sense.
—Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omission
deletion
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So, the researchers looked at where these hox genes were active in fish with and without the deletion.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
17 Sep. 2025
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Integrate archiving with centralized policy controls, permissions and defensible deletion workflows.—
Sean Nathaniel,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Omission.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omission. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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