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
But these apps were designed to enable privacy and message deletion—not regulatory compliance or secure team coordination.
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Richard Danforth, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
With those deletions, Gillett has given us our 21st century Rose Mary Stretch.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2025
Send to Incinerator queues up files for irreversible deletion, but doesn’t wipe them out immediately.
—PC Magazine, 17 June 2025
No official reason was given by the Colts for the deletion of the video.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025
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Richard Danforth, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
With those deletions, Gillett has given us our 21st century Rose Mary Stretch.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2025
Send to Incinerator queues up files for irreversible deletion, but doesn’t wipe them out immediately.
—PC Magazine, 17 June 2025
No official reason was given by the Colts for the deletion of the video.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deletion
omission
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Additional backstory helps explain the plan’s omissions.—
Stuart Anderson,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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More scandalous than Aster’s omission of a questionable election is the film’s opportunistic George Floyd analogy of racial unrest.—
Armond White,
National Review,
23 July 2025
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“Deletion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deletion. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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