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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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
None were incriminating and Paqueta claimed the deletions had been to help navigate family tensions.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
The actress shares Eloise, who was diagnosed with a deletion in chromosome 8 in 2016, with ex Aaron Phypers.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Among other deletions, the reports do not include accounts from individual abuse survivors or witnesses.
—Matthew Lee, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
None were incriminating and Paqueta claimed the deletions had been to help navigate family tensions.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
The actress shares Eloise, who was diagnosed with a deletion in chromosome 8 in 2016, with ex Aaron Phypers.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Among other deletions, the reports do not include accounts from individual abuse survivors or witnesses.
—Matthew Lee, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deletion
omission
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The defendants concealed the cash receipts from an accountant, who prepared their taxes, which led to the fraudulent omission of more than $17 million in gross sales from tax returns filed with the IRS.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
1 Oct. 2025
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As Mahoney's statement about the Hobbs administration's purposeful omission of climate content from the plan suggests, opinions on how best to get the public on board with heat solutions vary.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Deletion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deletion. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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