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
At the same time, Pure Storage SafeMode creates immutable snapshots that prevent deletion or modification, protecting against ransomware and insider threats.
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Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
In the past, that required them to contact individual companies or data brokers to request one-by-one deletions.
—Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
On New Year’s Day, a government website opened to let Californians demand that more than 500 intermediaries called data brokers wipe their personal information from the data on sale and regularly repeat those deletions in the future.
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2026
The biggest noise around the roster unveiling will undoubtedly surround former Norris Trophy winner Adam Fox’s deletion after a tough 4 Nations tournament and not selecting the second-leading goal-scoring American, Jason Robertson.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
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Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
In the past, that required them to contact individual companies or data brokers to request one-by-one deletions.
—Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
On New Year’s Day, a government website opened to let Californians demand that more than 500 intermediaries called data brokers wipe their personal information from the data on sale and regularly repeat those deletions in the future.
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2026
The biggest noise around the roster unveiling will undoubtedly surround former Norris Trophy winner Adam Fox’s deletion after a tough 4 Nations tournament and not selecting the second-leading goal-scoring American, Jason Robertson.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deletion
omission
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That omission was not an accident.—
Randy Linville,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Feb. 2026
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The fact that this was a purely hypothetical exercise wasn’t lost on Larionov, who doesn’t have to actually sweat out his omissions the way USA GM Bill Guerin or Canada GM Doug Armstrong and Sweden head coach Sam Hallam have in real life.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Deletion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deletion. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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