overlooked

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The 22-year-old missed two qualifying matches last September because of a shoulder injury but was overlooked for October's international camp, including a qualifier against Latvia.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

In a perspective published in the scientific journal Biocontaminant, researchers describe free living amoebae as an overlooked public health risk that needs far more attention.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026

In a town overlooked by picturesque Mount Kenya, locals are angry and afraid over their government allowing the United States to build an Ebola facility in their midst.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

It was just really watching a master at work, and the rest of our crew as well; not a detail was ever overlooked.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

I need to get up to the tower, to go through all of Prince Balekin’s correspondence and hope I find something to do with Locke’s mother or Dain or the coronation, something I overlooked.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black