overlooked

Example Sentences

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“You take what the world cast aside and breathe spirit into it, insisting that the overlooked can speak, that the discarded can testify, that the everyday can dream.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

The Samsung founder's eldest son always thought he would lead the business one day but he was overlooked in the first succession in favour of the youngest brother.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Related: ‘This is an overlooked catastrophe’: Why do so many hospitals not accept Medicare Advantage for cancer patients?

From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026

This group was selected in part because older Chinese Americans have often been overlooked in research on brain aging, leaving important gaps in understanding how memory loss develops in this population.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

But for one reason or another, the zero was overlooked, and it stayed hidden in the code.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife