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  • noun Plural form of oversight.

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Examples

  • The committee said Ms Dorries had apologised for the designation oversights, but regarded the commissioner's comments regarding her "misleading" of voters as "strongly worded and incorrect".

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • Even major corporations sometimes need to call a "do-over" on their finances -- and sometimes, their oversights are a lot bigger than yours.

    Fool.com Headlines Selena Maranjian 2010

  • Ironically, among the oversights is the improper understanding of the contract language, he points out.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Even major corporations sometimes need to call a "do-over" on their finances -- and sometimes, their oversights are a lot bigger than yours.

    Fool.com Headlines Selena Maranjian 2010

  • These evidentiary "oversights" vividly expose the willful blindness of the business model reformers to the social and economic forces at play in their communities.

    Diann Woodard: The Summer Soldiers of School Reform Diann Woodard 2010

  • You know, I and the African-American transgender community are beyond sick and tired of being sick and tired of the frequency of these 'oversights', the weak excuses that freely flow from white transpeople and their gay-lesbian allies trying to justify them, and the empty promises that flow from their lying lips that they'll do a better job next time to fix the problem.

    Another Historic Meeting, Another Melanin Free Transgender Contingent Renee 2009

  • You know, I and the African-American transgender community are beyond sick and tired of being sick and tired of the frequency of these 'oversights', the weak excuses that freely flow from white transpeople and their gay-lesbian allies trying to justify them, and the empty promises that flow from their lying lips that they'll do a better job next time to fix the problem.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Renee 2009

  • Short-sighted concessions for economic gain, weak institutions and corruption are major factors in the proliferation of planning "oversights," "exceptions" and other forms of inappropriate development in urban areas.

    Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 7 2008

  • Pickwick, it has been often pointed out, is full of amusing "oversights," which are pardonable enough, and almost add to the "fun" of the piece.

    Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

  • Considerations that might tend to the sweetening of his temper it was his daily care to store away, with a kind of philosophic pride in the thought that no one took more good-naturedly than he the "oversights" of his neighbours.

    Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Walter Pater 1866

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