Missed and Scored

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Missed adjective - Not caught with the senses or the mind.

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Scored is an antonym for missed.

Nearby Words: miss, missing

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Missed is an antonym for scored.

Nearby Words: score, scoring, scorer

It was a Xanatos Gambit: Either they scored and won, or they missed, called the penalty, and got to try again much closer.

Source: Down to the Last Play
And yet again involving hockey, A number of PVR users with Rogers (who also own the rights to the said NHL games) missed out on the winning goal for the Nashville Predators due to a scheduled 2AM PVR update when the Predators scored a winning goal after three overtime periods.

Source: Missing the Good Stuff
It then went to sudden death flicks, Australia missed and Argentina scored.

Source: Down to the Last Play

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