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pretermission

noun

Definition of pretermissionnext
as in default

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pretermission
  1. default
  2. neglect
  3. reduction
  4. negligence
  5. deduction
  6. failure
  7. oversight
  8. abbreviation
Noun
  • The bigger shift is that alcohol doesn’t have to be the default centerpiece of every social occasion.
    — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The Generalist Premium Has Flipped For two years, the default move has been to pick the largest, most general AI vendor available.
    — Kyle Nakatsuji, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of default
Noun
  • Merz said his presence — Germany is not an Arctic country — testified to the importance of the region to overall European security and suggested years of relative neglect should end.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • There are places to disagree with Rovelli, such as his neglect of the primacy of experience in considering how science is even possible.
    — Adam Frank, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of neglect
Noun
  • The 2026 study showed dramatic long-term reductions in indoor water use.
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • At a quantum level, though, these reductions are happening in jumps, and Safavi-Naeini’s team measured them in real time, a first-of-its-kind achievement.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of reduction
Noun
  • One is the legal stuff that’s going on—all this liability and product-liability and negligence stuff is starting to gain ground very much like the cigarette.
    — Victoria Feng, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026
  • In early August, the surviving Waithe daughter sued Kara, Zhuldasov and Next Level Express, alleging negligence and reckless conduct.
    — John Kelly, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of negligence
Noun
  • The bill also added a bigger federal deduction limit for state and local taxes, or SALT, for filers who itemize.
    — Kate Dore, CFP®, EA, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Another eight-point deduction was suspended until the end of the season in case of a further breach of pitch regulations.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of deduction
Noun
  • It is built the same way that the figure skater builds a routine or the running back learns to explode through a crack in the line—repetition after repetition, failure after failure, with no shortcut available and no machine that can stand in.
    — Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • That makes preventing deployment and routing failures especially important as these fleets expand.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of failure
Noun
  • The president was pushing back against calls by tech leaders such as Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and SpaceXAI's Elon Musk to have greater government oversight of AI.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Those that treat it as a workflow, training-data and clinician-oversight problem are better positioned to get durable value out of it while still managing the residual risk.
    — Pat Williams, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of oversight
Noun
  • There will be controversy, grift and venality, supporters will get lost and lose themselves in a fog of legalese, accounting and abbreviations — VAR, SCR, LOL, FFS — there will be ugliness and misgivings and a lot of meh.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • For spacing purposes, Steele has removed the following words – left, at, by, went, had, in, the, to, for, and, then and got – and has crafted his own abbreviations.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of abbreviation
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“Pretermission.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pretermission. Accessed 21 Sep. 2026.

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