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If Republicans blow it and fail to pass significant legislation, that will be a huge lost opportunity and damaging for 2016.

What a lost opportunity to employ and train Somalis and build out a skilled labor sector.

Imagine them all clustered in a roadhouse, having a beer around sunset, shaking their heads over the lost opportunity.

The biggest hypocrisy is also the biggest lost opportunity—the failure to follow through on deficit reduction.

It's another lost opportunity for them to make this a closed press event.

I could have wept for despair at this lost opportunity, at this useless flight which might mean our own destruction.

How did the lost opportunity of laying up his treasure in the lives of men look to him then, I wondered.

Was it the lost opportunity the Bishop was thinking of, instead of the suffering woman with her bruised and bleeding soul?

He walked grimly to camp bewailing his lost opportunity, and devising all kinds of schemes to recover it.

If a farmer neglects to plant in the springtime, he can never recover the lost opportunity; no more can you, if you neglect yours.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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