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missing

If something or someone is missing, they cannot be found.

missing

not able to be found missing in action a missing person (= lacking, absent) nonexistent the thumb is absent her appetite was lacking

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Simple sentences

Three people are still missing.
Nothing is missing.
One of the knives is missing.
That's just what was missing!
This guitar is missing a string.
This chair is missing a leg.
I think that you're missing the point.
We searched the woods for the missing child.
What is missing?
I was angry about missing that film at the cinema.
There is a fork missing.
One of my bags is missing.
There is a napkin missing.
There is a knife missing.
The statue is missing its head.
Missing for years, the document miraculously came to light the other day.
There is a spoon missing.
One of my suitcases is missing.
I was conscious that something was missing.
The rescue party searched for the missing passengers.
The machine has some of its parts missing.

Movie subtitles

Hello ma'am, do you ever feel like there's something missing from your life?
Are we not missing something here?
There's only one thing missing.
The deceased's name is Charles Michael Bucket, and his fingerprints match exactly those of a sailor who's been missing for three days.
We are a brotherhood, and when one of our brothers go missing, it hurts the whole Coast Guard family.
Sorry to bother you, Mr. J, it's just, uh, o-our dad is missing and we have reason to believe he may have been with you last night, uh.
Well, you don't know what you're missing.
There are no reports of a missing person matching her description on any police records.
Whatever way we look at it, there is a body missing, and we need to make sure we're looking for the right one.
He's missing, and she appears out of nowhere.
A missing body and an unidentified Jane Doe linked by circumstance only.
But aren't you missing someone?
Am I missing something?
And, you're sure nothing is missing?
But, as you can see, a part is missing.
I don't want to end up like my father, alone in some fucking V.A. hospital with nothing to show for his life but three missing fingers.
Since when did Jolene Parker's case go from missing person to murder investigation?
I found her body, called the police, and reported a missing person.
Jeddy and Ellie set out to find the missing Mr. West.
A dog is missing.
How many bales are missing in total?
Who's missing over there?
I've no idea, unless some of the silverware's missing.
They've been missing two days.
Some day you'll find out you've been missing something.
That's only because you've been missing me.
You have been missing me, haven't you?
Missing you, my darling.
YOU SAW THE TEXTS. I'M MISSING IT.
All I know is women are going missing.
I've decided the best way to approach this is to concentrate on one missing woman at a time, starting with.
Did you not know she was reported missing in mid-April?
She didn't look missing to me.
They seem to have gone missing.
And as far as I'm concerned, finding a missing person is of equal importance to solving a murder.
Did you know that she'd been reported missing?
The rest of the material - which is missing - must be regarded as lost for ever.
Listen. When the necklace is found missing, someone's got to be blamed.

News and current affairs

To be sure, fiscal deficits and emergency measures in advanced economies and some major developing countries have cushioned the sharp decline, substituting in part for missing consumers.
What's missing in the debate is the Latin American context.
This missing science would describe processes, and how entire systems evolve.
Unfortunately, the appropriate sense of urgency is missing.
But migrants produce no additional value added for the countries into which they immigrate, but incur migration costs and their contribution to domestic value added is missing.
Democracy is either defective or missing in Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua, and it is threatened by one cause or another in Venezuela and Colombia.
In other words, Chinese households are missing out on the benefits of economic growth.
But some nations will be missing from the party.
That project has still not been completed, but the missing bits are a continuing process, not a new idea.
Missing this target is what has set Greece apart.
Ever since these pipelines were effectively handed over to nominally private companies in murky deals, earnings from transit fees have gone missing, along with vast amounts of gas, while little maintenance has been carried out.
As doctors patiently explain, what they are missing is medicine, because they lack the money to buy needed drugs.
But this correlation goes missing when one looks at the dimension of time rather than space.
The only missing ingredient is the political will and strength to enter into a peace agreement.
And now it risks missing another important clue.
Equally problematic, the MDGs implicitly assume that we know how to achieve development targets, and that only resources and political will are missing.
What is missing is a new, 13th convention that closes the loophole that seems to permit governments to decide what constitutes terrorism and what does not.
This might just be possible, because the emerging outlines of a new framework to resolve the ongoing sovereign-debt crisis contain a key component that was missing so far.
Merkel will reintroduce the warmth that has been missing under Schroeder, but she will not become America's yes-woman.
As with most things in Asia nowadays, China holds the key to supplying Asia's missing consumer demand.
Until that investment shortfall is made up, the missing capital will serve to depress the level of real GDP in the US by two full percentage points.
Belarus is the missing link in Eastern Europe's post-Soviet democratization and reintegration.
The political institutions needed for an effective market economy are largely missing, and corruption is rampant.
By focusing exclusively on foreigners and domestic elites for investment, Afghanistan is missing out on the vast potential of micro-entrepreneurs and small businesses to contribute to steady GDP growth.
A sense of humility and skepticism is missing.

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