oversight
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Security at the bankrupt development was lax but oversight has since been improved, Petty said, with round-the-clock security guards, cameras, laser devices and tall metal walls topped with razor wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
This kind of oversight won’t seem unreasonable to most Americans, especially given the eye-watering levels of fraud that are permeating these programs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Those fears have prompted the White House to increase oversight of AI models and push the private sector to deploy AI for defensive purposes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Plus, this excruciating level of oversight likely isn’t personal, says Tessa West, a psychology professor at New York University and the author of “Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The cookie tin had seemed to surprise him—an oversight.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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Alejandro, the gas station attendant, said he felt there were "too few oversights" of mining projects.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
The Justice Department scrambled to fix the oversights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Mistakes or oversights in DOT regulations could lead to lawsuits or even injuries and deaths in the transportation system.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026
"It gives me an opportunity to apologise for oversights and mistakes that were made"
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
Sophisticated printed illustrations based on perspective drawings thus turned anatomy into a progressive science, where each generation of anatomists was able to identify mistakes and oversights in the work of their predecessors.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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