miss the point
Example Sentences
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Both statements can be technically accurate and still miss the point.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Amanda explains what their anger really reveals about their deep anxieties around masculinity and race — and how they completely miss the point of what Superman has stood for forever.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2025
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 the idea of handling such a gleeful provocateur with kid gloves seems to somehow miss the point of De Palma’s work.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2024
Nowadays, we would call this plagiarism, but that would be entirely to miss the point.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
