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oversight

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1. oversight - Noun

2. oversight - Verb

Meaning

Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.

An overlooking; an omission; an error.

Escape from an overlooked peril.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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[These entrepreneurs] were writing their stories in a subgenre of contemporary fiction, the business plan, and populating them with characters endowed with deeply implausible personalities, an oversight which would eventually be punished not by a scathing review, ... but by a lack of custom. Alain de Botton

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans. Barbara Olson

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact. Darrell Issa

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people. John Poindexter

I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace. Roger Mahony

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings. Sibel Edmonds

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