The sentence "figure is missing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a graphic, chart, or diagram that is absent in a document. For example: "The figure depicting the average yearly temperatures for 2020 is missing from this report."
The poster's light-tan background colour could easily be meant to resemble aged, yellowing paper from a bygone era... or it could be the skin this poor figure is missing.
One key figure is missing though - US President Barack Obama.
When a figure is missing from the story, there's also a tendency for people to fill in the gaps for themselves.
The lower portion of this section is damaged and a part of both the text and the figure is missing.
The position of the shoulders and the face of the principal figure are not anatomically correct, leading the archaeologists to conclude that the "face" is actually a chest ornament and that the actual head of the main figure is missing.
The legend for the Supplementary Figure is missing the colour code used.
One key figure was missing: Mikhail Pletnev should have been soloist in two piano concertos at the Usher Hall with the ensemble he founded in 1990, the Russian National Orchestra.
Some senior figures are missing and the manager hopes to have Gary Neville back when Villarreal visit in three weeks, but his present squad still will not meet the standards he maintained for so much of his remarkable tenure.
This was obvious when figures were missing or when the writing style in the books changed.
Note that Danish sales figures are missing in the period 1990-93.
We calculated eight differences for Finland, Norway, and Sweden but 4 differences for Denmark because sales figures were missing for 1990-93.
