Sentence examples for missing in earlier from inspiring English sources

Scanning online news releases from the Department of Defense, one discovers, interspersed among policy announcements, statistical reports and accounts of recent casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq, the occasional release concerning the identification of soldiers missing in earlier wars.

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An earlier version of the story also said Robert Levinson went missing in 2008.

Some of those closed cases, of course, involved people who had been reported missing in earlier years.

He went missing in early April.

It was reported missing in 2012.

"That was what was missing in 2009.