deletions

plural of deletion

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Recent Examples of deletions 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
Noun
  • But with otherwise such strong access to McCartney alongside this wealth of archival clips, the omissions or glossed over subjects — one assumes at McCartney’s behest — while present, never feel glaring.
    Caleb Hammond, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
  • These omissions include Antonio Banderas, Daniel Day-Lewis, Colin Firth, Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025

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“Deletions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deletions. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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