In a sentence
Six example sentences with oversight, each labelled with its topic.
A single oversight in the proof, one case the author never considered, kept the argument disputed for forty years.
Philosophy
The permit missed the wetland entirely, an oversight nobody caught until the excavators reached the reeds in June.
Environment
A decimal in the wrong column was pure oversight, but it cost the fund two days of frantic reconciliation.
Finance
Shipping the build with the test password still inside was an oversight, caught by a customer three days later.
Technology
Forgetting the salt was a simple oversight, but the whole batch of bread tasted flat and nobody wanted seconds.
Cooking
Leaving the shooter unguarded was an oversight, since the scouting report had named him on its first line.
Basketball
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