serious omission

collocation in English

meaningsofseriousandomission

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serious
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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omission
noun[C or U]
uk
/əʊˈmɪʃ.ən/us
/oʊˈmɪʃ.ən/
the act of not including something or someone that should have been included, or something or someone that has not been included that should ...
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(Definition ofseriousandomissionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofserious omission

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In a book about biodiversity, which is generally considered to include diversity at the genetic level, this has to be considered as aseriousomission.
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Given a whole school year's work is proposed, some might see this as aseriousomission.
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The mostseriousomissionis in the field of agricultural history.
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Further, there is aseriousomissionconcerning the smoothing of time-series data, and appropriate time-series analyses are never performed.
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Our results indicate that where this neglect has occurred it may have been a veryseriousomission.
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But that is aseriousomission.
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In addition, the group sizes were unequal (re-ecting local practice), women with spinals were given more intravenous -uids, and the lack of umbilical cord gas data is aseriousomission.
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Bonner's coverage of the flag's history from the period of reconciliation to the present is far too quickly done and, in light of the current debates, heralds aseriousomission.
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That is aseriousomission, and we recognise it as such.
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If that were not included, it would be a veryseriousomission.
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I think that is a veryseriousomission.
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People do love gardens, and to be deprived of a garden is to many citizens a veryseriousomission.
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That has been aseriousomissionin our system.
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This surely is a veryseriousomissionindeed.
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Thatseriousomissioninvariably meant that agencies receiving complaints were completely unaware of complaints made in other areas.
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That is aseriousomissionon the part of those who do not do so.
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That was aseriousomissionfrom this year's legislative programme.
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But there is a third respect in which it appears to me that there is aseriousomission.
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I think that it is aseriousomission.
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In all this there has been oneseriousomissionin agriculture.
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