as in omissions
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 deletions
These secondary variants took many forms, including both small changes and large deletions, duplications and expansions of their DNA.
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Santhosh Girirajan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
None were incriminating and Paqueta claimed the deletions had been to help navigate family tensions.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Among other deletions, the reports do not include accounts from individual abuse survivors or witnesses.
—Matthew Lee, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Automate detection of out-of-bounds activity, such as large-scale deletions or unusual API calls, and trigger alerts or containment actions.
—Tannu Jiwnani, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Or the other way around things could get inserted in, or insertions and deletions.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
The deletions were being discussed this morning on Reddit and in news articles, with people expressing suspicions based on which parts of the Constitution were missing.
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2025
Short reads can turn up single base-pair mutations, while longer reads are better for detecting complicated variations like deletions or insertions of thousands of base pairs.
—Dmitri Pavlichin, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2018
Santhosh Girirajan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
None were incriminating and Paqueta claimed the deletions had been to help navigate family tensions.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Among other deletions, the reports do not include accounts from individual abuse survivors or witnesses.
—Matthew Lee, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Automate detection of out-of-bounds activity, such as large-scale deletions or unusual API calls, and trigger alerts or containment actions.
—Tannu Jiwnani, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Or the other way around things could get inserted in, or insertions and deletions.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
The deletions were being discussed this morning on Reddit and in news articles, with people expressing suspicions based on which parts of the Constitution were missing.
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2025
Short reads can turn up single base-pair mutations, while longer reads are better for detecting complicated variations like deletions or insertions of thousands of base pairs.
—Dmitri Pavlichin, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deletions
omissions
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Yet his film, even in its omissions, brims with strategic ingenuity and daring, cinematic and political—to fight other films’ empty fantasies with substantial ones, to battle other advocates’ pernicious myths with virtuous ones.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2025
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But personally, not having brows is one of my favorite, most naturally feminine omissions from my face.—
Essence,
Essence,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Deletions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deletions. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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