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miscarry

[mis-kar-ee, mis-kar-ee] / mɪsˈkær i, ˈmɪsˌkær i /
VERB
lose fetus
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG




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The pilot suggests the extra costs of staff and training are outweighed by the money saved having fewer women miscarry.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

Rodriguez went on to miscarry while in custody, according to a lawsuit she filed against the federal government.

From Salon Oct. 22, 2025

Up to one in four women who know they are pregnant will miscarry, according to the National Library of Medicine.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 25, 2024

“A lot of people successfully miscarry on their own, but that can take a couple months,” Loren said in an interview.

From Seattle Times Feb. 5, 2024

Even with the arrows gone they fared little better, for Athena had now come to take a part in the great deeds being done and she made each attempt to reach Odysseus miscarry.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

A woman who miscarries and needs medical care is, in this worldview, much like a malfunctioning appliance.

From Salon Nov. 1, 2024

If someone delivers or miscarries at a hospital, there are methods to dispose of remains already in place, usually mass graves.

From Slate Oct. 3, 2024

Like my husband, many men experience sadness, grief, stress, anxiety, and depression after their partner miscarries.

From Washington Post Jul. 2, 2021

One of its most talked-about sequences came when Fleabag’s sister miscarries in a restaurant toilet cubicle.

From The Guardian Feb. 22, 2020

"It is spoken with understanding and foresight. But how do I draw back my arm if all this miscarries?"

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

Through his remissions, they pursued fertility treatments and rounds of IVF, but miscarried each time.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 2026

Two horses were dead when he arrived, including a foal that appeared stillborn or miscarried.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2026

Eventually, she began to see brown discharge and was taken to an off-site hospital where, days later, health care providers confirmed she had miscarried.

From Salon Oct. 22, 2025

And it could have meant more barriers to care when she miscarried during a subsequent pregnancy and ended up turning to an online pharmacy after one in Austin delayed filling her prescription.

From Slate May 21, 2025

When Estella miscarried a third time, the doctor spelled the consequences out more plainly: “Another pregnancy could kill your wife.”

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

ProPublica previously reported on two such cases in which miscarrying women in Texas died of sepsis after doctors delayed evacuating their uteruses.

From Salon Feb. 21, 2025

"I was not prepared for the shock of miscarrying at work during my first pregnancy," she said.

From BBC Jan. 14, 2025

This May, when Ryan Hamilton’s wife was bleeding while miscarrying at 13 weeks, the first doctor they saw at Surepoint Emergency Center Stephenville noted no fetal cardiac activity and ordered misoprostol, according to medical records.

From Salon Nov. 25, 2024

There’s also Josseli Barnica, the 28-year-old mother of a toddler who went to the hospital miscarrying at 17 weeks pregnant.

From Slate Nov. 5, 2024

Demetrius having had the misfortune of miscarrying upon the Stage, endeavours to preserve his unlawful Title to Wit, by bringing all the Dramatick Poets down to his own Level.

From The Present State of Wit (1711) In a Letter to a Friend in the Country by Gay, John




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