How to Use oversight in a Sentence

oversight

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  • The new manager was given oversight of the project.
  • The error was a simple oversight.
  • The fact that you didn't get an invitation is surely just an oversight.
  • When that occurs, the pilots can leave the cockpits and oversight can be from the ground.
    — Michael Barnard, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • That the oversight has not been corrected is, perhaps, a sign of his standing in the program.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The result was no oversight for the bankrupt crypto exchange.
    — Vicky Ge Huang, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the public at the meeting spoke out against the DOJ’s potential oversight, concerned the city might rollover when the time came to sign a consent decree.
    — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Jan. 2024
  • State leaders say the court ruling increased the urgency to put state oversight in place.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Erika and Byron thought the school lacked proper oversight and planning.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The ruling was based on the same state pawn shop laws that have enabled the industry to operate with little oversight.
    — Joel Jacobs, ProPublica, 13 July 2023
  • There is no statewide oversight or inspection of county jails.
    — Isabelle Taft, ProPublica, 16 Jan. 2024
  • That means there is a lack of oversight of migrants' living and working conditions.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Under the plan, the team would have to negotiate a special payment with the oversight board to offset some of the revenue that would be lost due to the frozen assessment.
    — Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • Alicia Reece has no direct oversight of Oak View Group, the company that runs the convention center.
    — The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Countries that do not seek support are largely exempt from oversight.
    — Martin Daunton, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Moore announced the move at Tuesday’s meeting of the department’s oversight body, the Board of Police Commissioners.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The two cities, Mitchell said, both have deliberate citizens’ oversight boards.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The sponsors aim for greater oversight, enforcement and deterrence.
    — Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Emails show that Diamantis requested that Sanders and the hazmat program be moved under his oversight during that time.
    — Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The system error affecting Navy retirees is the latest administrative oversight to come to light in the last few weeks.
    — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 15 May 2023
  • The application process will be managed by the city clerk’s office, with the City Ethics Commission providing oversight.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The law also raised the maximum number of toddlers that could be left under the care of adolescents without adult oversight — to seven 2-year-olds (up from six) or 10 3-year-olds (up from eight).
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • Much of the labor is done by immigrants working on small farms that operate with little safety oversight.
    — Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2023
  • One risk is that credit costs could be higher for longer as internal oversight is fixed, Raymond James analyst Steve Moss said.
    — Hannah Levitt, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For the moment, though, U.S. policy insists that there always be human oversight.
    — Ted Koppel, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Brittany wrote last year how the Philips debacle underscores the deep flaws of medical device oversight.
    — Bob Herman Reprints, STAT, 2 Oct. 2023
  • When my mom bounced a check there a few months earlier when trying to buy me a logo sweatshirt and herself a dress, the Xanadu singer herself wrote a note graciously forgiving the oversight.
    — Sarah Colombo, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • It’s held hearings increasing oversight on a handful of hotels that were allegedly sites of high-profile crimes.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
  • There's a number of reasons for that, ranging from concern about lack of oversight for the funding to worries about draining US resources in service of foreign countries.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This is an area that needs senior participation and oversight.
    — Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 18 July 2023

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