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misses

  • plural of miss.
  • present tense form of miss (3rd person singular).

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"By providing bursaries to those who need them most and fully funding apprenticeship training, we are making sure cost is not the reason someone misses out," McFadden said.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

But revenue misses aren’t necessarily viewed as bad things in the eyes of wireless investors.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Nadira Goffe interviewed a classicist about the significance of casting Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy and argues that the controversy over her appearance misses the point.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

If an engineer opts for a smaller model, and that model misses something a frontier model wouldn’t have, then “the human time to figure that out is not worth the toil,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

“Dear Polo, we are so glad we will see you in a mere matter of hours. We miss you. We miss you as the dry, cracked earth misses the rain.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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