to miss
Examples
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Meaning: "Those who are late to act, arrive, or get up tend to miss opportunities already seized by those who came earlier."
To miss the forest because of the trees.