misses

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One of his misses was a potential game winning jumper with 1.5 seconds left.

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  1. transitive verb To fail to hit, reach, catch, meet, or otherwise make contact with.
  2. transitive verb To fail to perceive, understand, or experience: completely missed the point of the film.
  3. transitive verb To fail to accomplish, achieve, or attain (a goal).
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  • After the usual disappointments and near-misses, they achieved their goal with a bitch they named Dia de Selle, the first WHV to be exhibited.
  • The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has found that errors by air traffic controllers were the probable causes of three recent near-misses, according to final reports on the events. —  HEADLINES
  • One of his misses was a potential game winning jumper with 1.5 seconds left. —  LOY's PLACE a celtics green blog
  • Even if the skunks misses, which is rare, the musk will cause nausea, gagging and general discomfort. —  Serendip's Exchange -
  • But what this perspective misses is the fact that by leaving large numbers of American forces in Iraq, we are having a dramatic impact on the likely political outcomes. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
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