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If you almost got it, but you didn’t get it, you might as well have missed it completely. A near miss is just a fancy way of saying you lost.

I almost beat my brother, but I still lost the game.

I almost got the job, but I still didn’t get it.

I almost got the pizza, but I still didn’t get the pizza.