Example Sentences

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"These companies have been overlooking and sidestepping the ethics of these things knowingly in many cases for many years," she said.

From Reuters • Nov. 14, 2023

Perhaps we have been overlooking China’s prowess at adaptive creativity.

From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022

But as they have attempted to develop more complex quake-prediction devices, they may have been overlooking a simple one that predates man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now companies that have been overlooking their B players may start to regret it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Others replied: 'That is true: we have been overlooking that important detail; we have been led away by excitement.'

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Twain, Mark