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• n  any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases
• n  (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
• n  the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
  an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors
• n  the act of deleting something written or printed

• The Lexar JumpDrive Secure II has software to encrypt any file you drag to it, plus a "shredder" for permanent deletion.
• The deletion garnered critics on both the left and right who said she was pandering to Edwards, a former Senator from North Carolina, where Duke is located and where he has based .
• But in versions available in English-language Mideast media and Websites, there was another deletion of interest, that of an institution: the Bank al Madina.

• omission
• excision
• cut

News & Articles

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• Austin Veterans Affairs center accidentally deletes data files
  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says human error is to blame for the accidental deletion of 464,000 electronic data files related to home loans.
  June 12, 2013 - YNN Austin
• Veteran Affairs officials blame human error for deletion of 464,000 files
  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says human error is to blame for the accidental deletion of 464,000 electronic data files related to home loans.
  June 11, 2013 - WOWK-TV West Virginia
• Cleveland VA office not involved in document deletion
  The Cleveland regional office of the Department of Veterans Affairs was not involved in the accidental deletion of 464,000 digital documents from a national home loan database, but the VA could not say where the incident occurred in its system.
  June 11, 2013 - The Sun Press

Quotes

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton in AFP
  We were heartened by the decision earlier this week to reverse the deletion of the 500 names from the list for the upcoming election,Clinton told reporters.
• John Curtin in Stuff.co.nz
  The composition of the Security Council must reflect these fundamental changes. Japan is convinced that Security Council reform is a just cause for the international community -- as is the deletion of the long-obsolete 'enemy state' clauses from... Junichiro Koizumi http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junichiro_Koizumi&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGSCnuOVOPYr0an9pEVc62m6xn4Ww Deutsche Welle http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1711871,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEctfmHF0WXKxqvugNwPkuYqbGJ1A Sep 16, 2005 26046 34829 delft Curtin said Purdon might have to consider a longer sulky - we had the same problem with Delft (2006 Interdominion Trotting Final). Hitting the cart cost him a huge race once."