leaving (out)

present participle of leave (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for leaving (out)
Verb
  • Although in 2025, MIA saw its first decline in the first half of the year since 2017, excluding the pandemic year of 2020.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The plan involved certain citizens taking 10% of the United States – the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana – and excluding all nonwhite people from living there.
    Paul J. Becker, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And that paper only covered a handful of mainstream theories, omitting the more far-out ideas, like the notion that even a pebble, sunflower, or garden hose may contain a trace of consciousness.
    Stephen Johnson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The number of offenses reported so far this year (after omitting the most recent week of available data to control for reporting lags) and the percentage change over the same point last year.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Those remains still saturate the soil of the now quaint hills and regrown forests surrounding the salient that once proved so vital to preventing the invading German forces from reaching Paris.
    Michael Jerome Plunkett September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Among the reasons the name was chosen, according to historians, was to signal that the United States prioritized preventing wars in the post-World War II nuclear age.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Leaving (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaving%20%28out%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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