LEAVING (OUT) Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

leaving (out)

verb

present participle of leave (out)

as in missing out

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Since May 1, New York state, excluding New York City, has seen 107 cases.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
The labor force participation rate fell to its lowest level in half a century when excluding the pandemic, according to data released Thursday.

— Dan Mangan,Luke Fountain,Kevin Breuninger,Garrett Downs,Ashley Capoot,Justin Papp, CNBC, 2 July 2026

Definition of excluding

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The former vice president focused on the debates that defined the country's founding and its ramifications on the present-day United States, omitting details about her 2024 presidential race.

— Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 24 June 2026
Lagrange Numbers as a Measure of Irrationality At the end of the 19th century mathematician Andrey Markov took another pass at this challenge by omitting the golden ratio and focusing on the remaining irrational values.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 June 2026

Definition of omitting

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For a long time, large numbers of Americans couldn’t pass the federal government’s literacy test—especially in the South, where preventing Black literacy was a pillar of white-supremacist government.

— Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
The professor was horrified by what appeared to be massive cheating in his course—cheating that was preventing most of the students from learning the material.

— Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026

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