miss the point
Example Sentences
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But to say they choose to live on the street, as Pratt has, is to miss the point, to excuse our own complicity, to overlook historic policy failures, and to choose contempt over compassion.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
Both statements can be technically accurate and still miss the point.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
It feels like a slice of Americana in New South Wales perhaps - but that would miss the point that here, rodeo has become very much an outback Australian tradition in its own right.
From BBC • May 1, 2025
“But intellectual judgments of the Hitler experience — Hitler-Erlebnis — miss the point entirely.”
From Salon • Aug. 5, 2024
Nowadays, we would call this plagiarism, but that would be entirely to miss the point.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
