lost opportunity
Example Sentences
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Ordinarily, I would not recommend taking money from your investment accounts as you’re paying tax on the withdrawals and getting hit by the lost opportunity cost of future returns.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
Here is a lost opportunity of tragic scale.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025
Over the years since I was a bright-eyed, 20-something staffer, I’ve come to doubt the practicality of a bipartisan Latino caucus, which now seems like a lost opportunity of the last generation.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2025
This Games will have more women than ever before, more media coverage and if they don’t grab this moment, it will be a lost opportunity.
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2024
Booth struck the bar table with his fist and regretted a lost opportunity.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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