as in to forget
to miss the opportunity or obligation
you must not omit mentioning the sources you used in researching your paper
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Recent Examples of omit
The typical data scientist’s training, practice, shop-talk and toolset omits business metrics.
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Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Sometimes, gardeners will then take this a bit further and omit local soil from planting holes altogether, only filling with peat moss.
—Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2025
Recent citywide crime The number of offenses reported for the most recent two weeks (after omitting the most recent week of available data to control for reporting lags) compared with the number reported for the two weeks before that.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2025
House Republicans omitted a proposal the Trump administration floated to raise the income tax rate from 37% to 39.6% on people with very high incomes.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 May 2025
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Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Sometimes, gardeners will then take this a bit further and omit local soil from planting holes altogether, only filling with peat moss.
—Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2025
Recent citywide crime The number of offenses reported for the most recent two weeks (after omitting the most recent week of available data to control for reporting lags) compared with the number reported for the two weeks before that.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2025
House Republicans omitted a proposal the Trump administration floated to raise the income tax rate from 37% to 39.6% on people with very high incomes.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 May 2025
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People forget this, but Duke had already won Game 1 of that Super Regional.—
Mitch Light,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
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Creating Emotionally Safer Experiences AI is quietly reshaping CX by learning when not to personalize, strategically forgetting past interactions to avoid user fatigue or creepiness.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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Leaders would be wise to not make overly risky decisions that will fail during an inevitable pull back in btc price.—
Alexander S. Blume,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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La Perla has failed to relaunch in recent years and after German businessman Lars Windhorst’s private equity firm Tennor, then known as Sapinda, took over the company in 2018.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
10 June 2025
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“Omit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omit. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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