as in deletion
something left out
the disk contains a selection of deleted scenes, and a couple of the omissions greatly add to the intelligibility of the movie's plot
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Recent Examples of omission
Yet no former secretary of state has been more vehemently criticized, most notably for sins of omission and commission in countries such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, Chile and East Timor.
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Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
His omission has confounded the Mets and many others around baseball.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
This omission seems surprising, given the navel’s centrality in his scheme.
—Steven Strogatz, New York Times, 16 June 2025
Some of these instances might not need the ability to run all those huge legacy Windows applications, for example, saving system resources by omission.
—Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine, 13 June 2025
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Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
His omission has confounded the Mets and many others around baseball.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
This omission seems surprising, given the navel’s centrality in his scheme.
—Steven Strogatz, New York Times, 16 June 2025
Some of these instances might not need the ability to run all those huge legacy Windows applications, for example, saving system resources by omission.
—Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine, 13 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for omission
Recent Examples of Synonyms for omission
deletion
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The evidence leans toward the account being American, but the deletion leaves some uncertainty.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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By 2016, researchers were specifically editing in deletions of imprinted genes in order to allow the creation of embryos by fusing stem cell lines that only had a single set of chromosomes.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 June 2025
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“Omission.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omission. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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