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oversight

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This is why arguments for little to no federal oversight of education are so disturbing.

There was virtually no government oversight of safety and operational standards.

Congress created SIGAR to provide oversight of relief and reconstruction projects in Afghanistan.

They have argued in court that they are not public and therefore they are not subject to the oversight that public entities are.

Third, the destruction: These hedge-fund managers want to eliminate all limits and oversight of charter schools.

Shifting Sands (Lane) reads like a book with a purpose from which the purpose has been by some oversight omitted.

A correspondent points out that if that amount has ever been left in the bottom of his teacup it was an oversight.

The ill success of half the foreign purchasers must be imputed to this oversight.

But a larger number of lambs will be reared by a careful oversight of the ewes, and the use of proper precautions.

By a very unusual chance or oversight, there had been no men-of-war despatched to protect property of such enormous value.

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On this page you'll find 108 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to oversight, such as: lapse, mistake, neglect, blank, blunder, and carelessness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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