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One day recently I was so exasperated, we have a prize at the end of the season for the most holes in one – so I suggested, is n’t it time we had a prize for the most near misses ? – Sylvia Dunne	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Senator Pizzo never misses an opportunity for his 15 minutes of fame and is challenging an action on an appropriation he voted for. – Taryn Fenske	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
He started expressing that Kareem's really gone, that he just wanted to be with him. And how much he misses him and loves him. – Shana Chappell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Brittney Griner was a model of courage today, bG’s service as an Olympian and global sport ambassador, caring for those most in need, has always distinguished Brittney Griner ; but Brittney Griner is also a human being whose family misses Brittney Griner. Brittney Griner deserves our compassion, understanding, love and support. The WNBA star and Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing in Khimki outside Moscow on Thursday, July 7, 2022. ( AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko). – Lindsay Kagawa Colas	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I mean, I really don’t know too much about the whole situation, if he misses it, it’s a next-man-up mentality. I’m going to be ready to play, and I know the rest of the team is still going to be ready to play. – Kareem Hunt	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The suggestion that the huge challenges young people face in buying their own home can be solved by skipping fancy coffees and Netflix entirely misses the point — but it's still believed by half the public. – Bobby Duffy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Their family loves them and misses them, and all we want is for them to come home safe. – James Bonasia	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In the event lockdowns come back into place, which it's very possible, there's no coming back if he misses two years, and I couldn't take that risk. So, we're sucking it up and paying to send him to private school. – Preston Grinstead	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
All of the obsessing over a 3 % uptick in White non-college polling numbers [ for Biden ] misses the larger and more important reality : There is a ceiling for Democrats [ with them ] so long as they are seen as the party affiliated with people of color. Are we really supposed to get excited over 32 % support instead of Clinton's 29 % ? – Steve Phillips	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Davion's worked so hard since he got here ... on being a more consistent shooter, last year he put in work, but if he missed one or two, it would affect him. Now he’s gotten to the point mentally he has enough confidence in himself. If he misses a couple of shots, he has that shooter’s confidence now to where the next one’s going in. – Scott Drew	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We're lucky enough to live in the center of Dauphin Island, so it's not hopefully gon na be too bad for us, i hope it really just misses us and we can go on with the rest of our summer and enjoy it, but if it hits us, just be prepared and be ready to hunker down. – Ryan Gieselman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
One of the complexities that we have is that there are lots of ways an algorithm can be fair, you can see an argument where [the government] said [it] wanted to get results that look similar to last year's. And at a country-wide level, that could be argued as [being] fair. But it completely misses what was fair for individuals. – Helena Webb	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think Joe's faith is so strong, it's something that I think he got from his mother, who was a very devout Catholic. Joe is really devout, and he never misses a Sunday service. – Jill Biden	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We allow due process. They have to have their day in court. If that causes a delay, if it means it misses Tokyo, it does not lose its power as it covers Paris 2024. That's the stick we are using so they don't drag it out. – Jonathan Taylor	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Im a comedian who pushes boundaries. I sometimes miss. If you go through my 10 years of comedy, most of it bad, youre going to find a lot of bad misses, im happy to apologize to anyone whos actually offended by anything Ive said. My intention is never to hurt anyone but I trying to be the best comedian I can be and sometimes that requires risks. – Shane Gillis	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The combination of fast fashion and accelerating supply chain speeds have exacerbated that risk by increasing the chances that a retailer reads the trends wrong and misses multiple trend cycles. – Greg Portell	Found on CNN 4 years ago
They can be monster hits like Matt Damon's' The Martian' or big misses like Jake Gyllenhaal's' Life,'. – Nikki Novak	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Some of the other misses seem to be related to the integration of Fox, i would speculate that they have decided to take all their lumps this quarter and put all this 'bad' news together, clearing the board for better results next quarter. – Jim Nail	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What has always surprised me is to see these grownups clapping when the opposing team misses a foul shot, its one thing if the kids in the stands do, but to have grownups cheering a childs mistake I think is just accepted now. – Linda Flanagan	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Relative to the field, I was about that long early in my career, when youre able to hit the ball much further than other players, and get on the right golf courses where setups like this is penalizing if you are a little bit crooked, and if he does miss it, he misses on the correct side, and hes far enough down there to where he was able to get the ball on the green. And he did all the little things right. – Tiger Woods	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Death comes so fast that sometimes it misses us. (La mort arrive si vite Que des fois elle nous rate) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 5 years ago
My father is all alone here in the South. Can you imagine how much he misses his family? he wants to hear the news of his hometown before he dies. – Kim Seong-jin	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Margarito Silva are most worried for my mother and my father, who have serious health issues, my father... is the only father that my daughter has ever known. She misses him dearly. Please ICE, do the right thing for me and my family. We ask for them to just come home safe. – Margarito Silva	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Nestle's insular, complacent, and bureaucratic organization is overly complex, lethargic, and misses too many trends. – Daniel Loeb	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

One day recently I was so exasperated, we have a prize at the end of the season for the most holes in one – so I suggested, is n’t it time we had a prize for the most near misses ?

– Sylvia Dunne

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Senator Pizzo never misses an opportunity for his 15 minutes of fame and is challenging an action on an appropriation he voted for.

– Taryn Fenske

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He started expressing that Kareem's really gone, that he just wanted to be with him. And how much he misses him and loves him.

– Shana Chappell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Brittney Griner was a model of courage today, bG’s service as an Olympian and global sport ambassador, caring for those most in need, has always distinguished Brittney Griner ; but Brittney Griner is also a human being whose family misses Brittney Griner. Brittney Griner deserves our compassion, understanding, love and support. The WNBA star and Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing in Khimki outside Moscow on Thursday, July 7, 2022. ( AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko).

– Lindsay Kagawa Colas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I mean, I really don’t know too much about the whole situation, if he misses it, it’s a next-man-up mentality. I’m going to be ready to play, and I know the rest of the team is still going to be ready to play.

– Kareem Hunt

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The suggestion that the huge challenges young people face in buying their own home can be solved by skipping fancy coffees and Netflix entirely misses the point — but it's still believed by half the public.

– Bobby Duffy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Their family loves them and misses them, and all we want is for them to come home safe.

– James Bonasia

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the event lockdowns come back into place, which it's very possible, there's no coming back if he misses two years, and I couldn't take that risk. So, we're sucking it up and paying to send him to private school.

– Preston Grinstead

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

All of the obsessing over a 3 % uptick in White non-college polling numbers [ for Biden ] misses the larger and more important reality : There is a ceiling for Democrats [ with them ] so long as they are seen as the party affiliated with people of color. Are we really supposed to get excited over 32 % support instead of Clinton's 29 % ?

– Steve Phillips

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Davion's worked so hard since he got here ... on being a more consistent shooter, last year he put in work, but if he missed one or two, it would affect him. Now he’s gotten to the point mentally he has enough confidence in himself. If he misses a couple of shots, he has that shooter’s confidence now to where the next one’s going in.

– Scott Drew

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We're lucky enough to live in the center of Dauphin Island, so it's not hopefully gon na be too bad for us, i hope it really just misses us and we can go on with the rest of our summer and enjoy it, but if it hits us, just be prepared and be ready to hunker down.

– Ryan Gieselman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

One of the complexities that we have is that there are lots of ways an algorithm can be fair, you can see an argument where [the government] said [it] wanted to get results that look similar to last year's. And at a country-wide level, that could be argued as [being] fair. But it completely misses what was fair for individuals.

– Helena Webb

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think Joe's faith is so strong, it's something that I think he got from his mother, who was a very devout Catholic. Joe is really devout, and he never misses a Sunday service.

– Jill Biden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We allow due process. They have to have their day in court. If that causes a delay, if it means it misses Tokyo, it does not lose its power as it covers Paris 2024. That's the stick we are using so they don't drag it out.

– Jonathan Taylor

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Im a comedian who pushes boundaries. I sometimes miss. If you go through my 10 years of comedy, most of it bad, youre going to find a lot of bad misses, im happy to apologize to anyone whos actually offended by anything Ive said. My intention is never to hurt anyone but I trying to be the best comedian I can be and sometimes that requires risks.

– Shane Gillis

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The combination of fast fashion and accelerating supply chain speeds have exacerbated that risk by increasing the chances that a retailer reads the trends wrong and misses multiple trend cycles.

– Greg Portell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They can be monster hits like Matt Damon's' The Martian' or big misses like Jake Gyllenhaal's' Life,'.

– Nikki Novak

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Some of the other misses seem to be related to the integration of Fox, i would speculate that they have decided to take all their lumps this quarter and put all this 'bad' news together, clearing the board for better results next quarter.

– Jim Nail

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What has always surprised me is to see these grownups clapping when the opposing team misses a foul shot, its one thing if the kids in the stands do, but to have grownups cheering a childs mistake I think is just accepted now.

– Linda Flanagan

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Relative to the field, I was about that long early in my career, when youre able to hit the ball much further than other players, and get on the right golf courses where setups like this is penalizing if you are a little bit crooked, and if he does miss it, he misses on the correct side, and hes far enough down there to where he was able to get the ball on the green. And he did all the little things right.

– Tiger Woods

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Death comes so fast that sometimes it misses us. (La mort arrive si vite Que des fois elle nous rate)

– Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
5 years ago

My father is all alone here in the South. Can you imagine how much he misses his family? he wants to hear the news of his hometown before he dies.

– Kim Seong-jin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Margarito Silva are most worried for my mother and my father, who have serious health issues, my father... is the only father that my daughter has ever known. She misses him dearly. Please ICE, do the right thing for me and my family. We ask for them to just come home safe.

– Margarito Silva

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Nestle's insular, complacent, and bureaucratic organization is overly complex, lethargic, and misses too many trends.

– Daniel Loeb

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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