as in omission
something left out
one of the deletions from the final cut of the movie turned out to be my one line of dialogue
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Recent Examples of deletion
Second, deletion should be easy and thorough.
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Keivan Navaie, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2025
Only four of the companies, however, stated that consumers could request the deletion of their data.
—Sara Braun, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
However, all of the deletions that had already been saved under the order will still be accessible to the NYT’s lawyers as evidence.
—PC Magazine, 11 Oct. 2025
These secondary variants took many forms, including both small changes and large deletions, duplications and expansions of their DNA.
—Santhosh Girirajan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
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Keivan Navaie, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2025
Only four of the companies, however, stated that consumers could request the deletion of their data.
—Sara Braun, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
However, all of the deletions that had already been saved under the order will still be accessible to the NYT’s lawyers as evidence.
—PC Magazine, 11 Oct. 2025
These secondary variants took many forms, including both small changes and large deletions, duplications and expansions of their DNA.
—Santhosh Girirajan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for deletion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deletion
omission
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The omission is understandable given that college sports in 1972 was much less commercialized, but when a law doesn’t address a topic, some insist the law should steer clear of it.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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The Blair Witch Project is a study in omission, in the conspicuous absence of the visual effects characteristic to the genre.—
Diana Hubbell,
Popular Science,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Deletion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deletion. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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