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as in ignored
to fail to give proper attention to
you've overlooked your chores again this week
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as in handled
to be in charge of
you'll be asked to overlook larger projects in the future
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as in possessed
to cast a spell on
the superstitious grandmother actually believed that the baby had been overlooked by a gypsy woman
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as in scanned
to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition)
quickly overlooked the table of used books to see if there was anything of value
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as in disregarded
to dismiss as of little importance
definitely not the kind of spouse to overlook even a single instance of marital infidelity
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as in managed
to look after and make decisions about
the engineer hired to overlook the construction of the canal
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Recent Examples of overlooked
More immediately, advocates in Pennsylvania are calling for heavier investment in an existing but often overlooked agency.
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Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
Long overlooked, the area is now drawing travelers looking for an alternative to South Africa’s popular safari spots.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Mar. 2026
Yet, it was not overlooked that Shell was nowhere to be seen or heard on the pivotal March 2 call Paramount brass had with Wall Street analysts and the media to discuss the WBD merger.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2026
After their excellent but somewhat overlooked 2023 album 3D Country — which occasionally evokes the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion — the band was feeling dispirited.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2026
Since the founding of the United States of America, women’s central role in safeguarding democracy has been overlooked—even as women have consistently, generation after generation, worked to protect it.
—Celina Stewart, Time, 8 Mar. 2026
All but two or three artists in the exhibition are women, including both renowned names like Georgia O’Keeffe, Dyani White Hawk and Toots Zynsky and those like Helen Frankenthaler and Claire Falkenstein, whose contributions to 20th-century American art are more frequently overlooked.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
One of the -- one of the data points for me is, that often gets overlooked, is the -- basically the military, IRGC, Basij, run about 40 percent of the GDP of that country.
—ABC News, 8 Mar. 2026
Because of that, French films made on a large scale that resemble Hollywood productions can sometimes be overlooked.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlooked
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Shah, 35, former mayor of the capital city of Kathmandu, has dominated the race to become Nepal’s PM during the campaign, gaining popularity across the country.—
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The fear that artificial intelligence (AI) will hollow out the workforce has dominated corporate boardrooms and business headlines for years, and gathered pace in early 2026.—
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The dog ignored him, and licked the boy’s face.—
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The forward mix can’t be ignored.—
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October 23 – November 21 Today must be handled one thing at a time.—
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Thursday was a momentous day for the district, with teachers demonstrating at campuses, the district calling for a return to negotiations for union leaders and parents trying to determine whether to send their children to school as substitutes handled classroom duties.—
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At the start of the campaign, Israel estimated Iran possessed roughly 3,000 missiles.—
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Getting possessed gets Ida killed, not that Mary Shelley seems to care.—
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The machine scanned the skull using bright, nondestructive X-rays, generating over 9,000 high-resolution images and terabytes of data.—
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At one, visitors design their own mini soccer stadium using Lego-like blocks, which are scanned by a kiosk and transformed into a digital model.—
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And yet, Trump has also managed to avoid complex questions about those issues — the most pressing before his administration — and despite Democrats and some of his own supporters lashing out over them.—
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Gibb managed to get to 17 points, but finished just 6 of 22 from the field.—
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Huffman was also sentenced to 250 hours of community service and supervised release for one year.—
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However, a hospital staff member reported that, in February, 2025, Adams asked the staff member to falsify about 25 documents claiming to have supervised medical procedures dating back months.—
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Irvi was enchanted and unnerved by Oaxaca’s clear blue skies, unmarred by skyscrapers.—
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Along with the clear Bowie and Orbison inspiration, the album’s influences reflect the tastes of someone recently enchanted by the romance of California.—
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“Overlooked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlooked. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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