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Originally Posted by Jens
I don't know what you mean. If they didn't find her, she'd still be missing, wouldn't she? Suppose that an expedition went to look for Tarzan, but failed to find him, and returned home empty-handed. Couldn't you say "Expedition returns without missing boy"?
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If you are joking, seriously, you have my permission to slap me but I think what Gillianren is saying is the term is sort of redundant. If she is still missing, the ship would naturally return without her. If the ship returned with her, they would not be calling her the missing woman anymore, they would be calling her the found woman.
Then again, without reading the article, one could possibly assume that they were just playing with words, a sort of double negative. They actually
did find her and she is on the ship but since she is found and no longer considered missing, they are announcing that the ship returned without a missing woman.