Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pretermit
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Still, even inside the awards-season bubble, the turmoil surrounding the movie business, the country and the world beyond it was hard to ignore.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026 -
They're exhausted by the constant airing of grievances having little to do with what's actually going on in the country, and by the broad generalizations about, well, everything, that ignore context, nuance and facts to promote a political viewpoint.—
Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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Then, as Musk has been prone to do, the former presidential adviser disregarded much of his previous explanation and said that building a civilization on Mars was still an option, just that building on the Moon is SpaceX’s current priority.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Feb. 2026
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Decades of pandering to public employee unions, bloating of bureaucratic staffs, and disregarding voter wishes regarding the outsourcing of local services and limiting pensions have been identified.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
Verb
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One Facebook friend of Bill’s previously questioned why his name was omitted as a spouse in the obituary.—
Sarah Jones,
PEOPLE,
3 Feb. 2026
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Top players omitted from the list were not nominated.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Feb. 2026
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Crazy how that works, and crazy that so many people seem to have forgotten that lesson (and many others) from their civics classes in high school.—
Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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But even if that New Year's resolution of clearing out the basement once and for all has been forgotten or abandoned by now, the year is still young.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
11 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The right felt slighted, again, this time as the victim of a great left-wing conspiracy to turn football’s biggest night against them.—
Lorraine Ali,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Did Probst feel slighted by all the backlash?—
David Canfield,
Vanity Fair,
20 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The Olay Super Eye Serum aims to brighten dark circles and firm the fragile under-eye area that can often be neglected, but which deserves daily TLC.—
Claire West,
InStyle,
9 Feb. 2026
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The land beneath the pool had been neglected and overgrown.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
8 Feb. 2026
Verb
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That shutdown ended with a promise to vote on extending the subsidies, which failed.—
Riley Beggin,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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Previous versions of the bill failed to gain traction in both chambers last year.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Pretermit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pretermit. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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