*See 45-Across

Usage examples of missing.

Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point, and the pun is very much intended.

If there had been significant developments on what happened to the missing 727 while he was on his way to Angola, the secretary would either have indicated that in the e-mail, or, at the least, ordered him to call home.

Boeing 727 that had gone missing from Luanda, Angola, had been stolen by or for a Russian arms dealer by the name of Vasily Respin either for parts to be used by one of his enterprises or to be sold to others.

It would be impossible to imagine a bachelor astronaut, because half his significance would be missing.

It would not do to have Nigel think he had come looking for him, because then, when the beastie turned up missing, old Nigel might put two and two together.

He tried to go on about how I could always be a warrior in my heart, blah blah, but he was missing my point.

When I told Bouvier that there might be quite a few pieces missing, he was hopping mad.

After that if Brat was missing from the normal orbit, one could always find him in the library, either working out something in a stud book or going slowly through the photographs of remarkable horses.

In situ investigation of the brecciated diabase in SNC Crater and surrounding region reveal that ilmenite and whitlockite are missing from this inventory.

Detective Breger, back from Vegas and now in search of the missing lover, wanted to have a chat.

All of them except three of the younger brigands, that is-Long Bill, Pifer Bob, and Silent Fred, who looked at each other nervously when Brewster described the appearance of the missing time machine.

In truce and war he passed back and forth from brigandage to service under the crown without missing a beat or changing his style.

But the interest of captain Bullen and the crew of the Campari was even more personal: the missing man was very much the root of all our troubles.

Three hours later captain Bullen was able to report with complete certainty that neither the missing scientist nor weapon was aboard.

Children with something worse than missing limbs, or hydrocephaly or spina bifida or muscular dystrophy or cerebral palsy.