as in omission
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 deletion
The actress shares Eloise, who was diagnosed with a deletion in chromosome 8 in 2016, with ex Aaron Phypers.
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Hannah Sacks, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
More than 30 of the companies, which collect and sell consumers’ personal information, hid their deletion instructions from Google, according to a review by The Markup and CalMatters of hundreds of broker websites.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
When Lemkin asked Replit whether rollbacks were possible after a database deletion, his concerned framing likely prompted a response that matched that concern—generating an explanation for why recovery might be impossible rather than accurately assessing actual system capabilities.
—ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2025
More than 30 of the companies, which collect and sell consumers’ personal information, hid their deletion instructions from Google, according to a review by The Markup and CalMatters of hundreds of broker websites.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025
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Hannah Sacks, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
More than 30 of the companies, which collect and sell consumers’ personal information, hid their deletion instructions from Google, according to a review by The Markup and CalMatters of hundreds of broker websites.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
When Lemkin asked Replit whether rollbacks were possible after a database deletion, his concerned framing likely prompted a response that matched that concern—generating an explanation for why recovery might be impossible rather than accurately assessing actual system capabilities.
—ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2025
More than 30 of the companies, which collect and sell consumers’ personal information, hid their deletion instructions from Google, according to a review by The Markup and CalMatters of hundreds of broker websites.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deletion
omission
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The lack of any difficulty-tuning options seems like a major omission for a modern title like Silksong.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 Sep. 2025
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Penalties can apply even if the omission wasn’t willful.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Deletion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deletion. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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