missed out

past tense of miss out, British

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Major opposition candidates were excluded from the race in the lead-up to voting, including former Credit Suisse president Tidjane Thiam and former President Laurent Gbagbo.
    Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Participants were relatively inactive, which was defined as walking less than 8,000 steps per day, and the study excluded people who already had major illnesses to reduce bias.
    Gina Park, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The father, who requested his name be omitted from PEOPLE's interview, declined to comment.
    Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, its gambit is to inflate the interlude chapters from King’s novel, which trace the town’s cursed history with its resident evil and were omitted from Muschietti’s films.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The documents contained details of disciplinary action and indicated that Sherrill was prohibited from participating in her 1994 graduation ceremony after declining to identify classmates implicated in a cheating incident.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement The Fifteenth Amendment had prohibited denying or abridging voting rights based on race, color, or conditions of previous servitude.
    Time, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Earlier this month, Bush told PEOPLE that Bills quarterback Josh Allen and his wife, actress Hailee Steinfeld, have previously put on the party, but work commitments prevented Steinfeld from continuing the tradition.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • While the government shutdown has prevented data sharing from any NASA missions that have observed the comet since October 1, the ESA’s Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter attempted to capture views of 3I/ATLAS in October.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Missed out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/missed%20out. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.

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