What's the difference between ignored and overlooked?

Ignored


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Ignore

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
  • (2) Anything not eligible is simply ignored or assumed to be someone else’s responsibility.
  • (3) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
  • (4) No one expected us to win either of these byelections, but we can’t ignore how disappointing these results are,” he said, referring also to last week’s Richmond Park byelection.
  • (5) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
  • (6) He wanted to ignore Fallope, Vesale, Eustache, Fernet, minor authors.
  • (7) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
  • (8) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
  • (9) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
  • (10) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
  • (11) More than 80% of the carriers who were interviewed ignored the directions about personal hygiene.
  • (12) Finally, any sensible person must be aware that Labour will find it impossible to govern if it attempts to ignore the national demand for a referendum.
  • (13) It is resulted from a wrong interpretation of the lung pathology shown in an X-ray picture or its complete ignorance, absence of a regular double reading of fluorographic images, constant shortage of fluorographic films and presence of risk factors.
  • (14) A deadline for bids had been set for the previous midnight, but East chose to ignore it.
  • (15) Access to besieged areas was a condition of a truce brokered earlier this year by the US and Russia , but the Syrian government has continued to ignore requests for aid deliveries, humanitarian officials say.
  • (16) The transport system was analyzed in terms of an equivalent circuit model comprising a proton motive force (PMF), an active conductance (LH) in series with the pump, and a parallel or passive conductance which may be ignored in this preparation.
  • (17) It's a declaration of exclusion: West is not a member in good standing of DC's Foreign Policy Community, and therefore his views can and should be ignored as Unserious and inconsequential.
  • (18) The correct formulae, which are available from the theory of age-dependent branching processes, are often ignored in the biological literature, perhaps due to their complexity.
  • (19) The authors describe several recent court cases in which judges have ignored or distorted acceptable clinical practices, conceivably creating a new liability standard whereby a tragic outcome is considered the result of failure to apply appropriate judgment.
  • (20) The circumferential stress in the vessel wall was greatly increased by diabetes; great errors will result if the opening angle is ignored.

Overlooked


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Overlook

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (2) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
  • (3) The anomaly may represent a hitherto overlooked but easily obtainable diagnostic marker.
  • (4) In view of its infrequent and vague presentation, care is required to avoid overlooking the diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis, particularly in the immigrant population.
  • (5) Before the offer for the jungle came in she was meant to be presenting the Plus Size Awards this week, an event supporting plus-size people who are doing amazing things but are overlooked by the mainstream.
  • (6) Similarly, it appears that acute hydronephrosis or worsening of an existing hydronephrosis has been somewhat overlooked as a possible cause of uncertain abdominal pain during pregnancy.
  • (7) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
  • (8) However, occupational hazards, toxic and iatrogenic drug-induced aetiologies should not be overlooked.
  • (9) The diagnosis of porphyria was overlooked in some as the symptoms may mimic those of other acute illnesses, so that incomplete or incorrect death certificates have been issued.
  • (10) In two cases, the pathologic report, reviewed retrospectively, failed to mention the cyst, but these cysts could have been overlooked.
  • (11) Results obtained with the probe were instrumental in modifying the operation in two of the four "positive" patients with recurrences, allowing the removal of tumour masses that would otherwise have been overlooked.
  • (12) Whereas the diagnosis unequivocally could be established by semithin sections the diagnosis was doubtful using material fixed with Bouin's solution and overlooked when the material was fixed with 4% formaldehyde solution.
  • (13) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
  • (14) This phenomenon may be common but overlooked because of the routine use of Ca2+ buffers in patch-clamp electrodes.
  • (15) Hypomagnesaemia is surprisingly common in hospital populations but is sometimes either undetected or overlooked.
  • (16) Studies of other cases are warranted to determine whether bacterial arteriopathy and arteritis have previously been overlooked or if the present case is unique.
  • (17) Using the computerized method a common bile duct stone would have been overlooked in only 1 patient but 17 unnecessary explorations would have been carried out.
  • (18) Polyps were detected ultrasonographically, but one third of them were overlooked by either cholecystography or CT. Nomenclature, pathological classification and management of the lesions are discussed.
  • (19) This paper addresses an often overlooked area of drug abuse: performance-enhancing drugs in sport.
  • (20) Although anterior and posterior traumatic displacement of cervical vertebrae are commonly noted, and the devastating neurological deficits associated with these injuries have been amply defined, lateral displacement with fractures has been rarely recognized, and the clinical significance of this injury has been overlooked.

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