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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

At her 10-week appointment, she learned that her child had triploidy, a genetic condition where a fetus has three sets of chromosomes instead of two, and would miscarry late-term or die at birth.

From Salon Oct. 3, 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

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

From The Guardian Feb. 22, 2020

Once the life is established, can a mother insure a six-week fetus and collect if she miscarries?

From Washington Post May 17, 2019

Is a woman who miscarries early responsible for fishing her small, sometimes hard-to-identify embryo out of a blood-filled toilet bowl before flushing?

From New York Times Jan. 5, 2019

When your pregnancy miscarries and you have to head straight back into working 80-hour weeks or lose your livelihood, that’s a personal violation.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2015

"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

One of the women, she recalled, was about four months pregnant when she miscarried twins.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 3, 2025

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

She began to imagine how old that last miscarried child would be now.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

Most disturbing of all, women who were actively miscarrying, an already physically painful and emotionally shattering experience, said they were ignored entirely by facility staff.

From Slate Dec. 8, 2025

As she was miscarrying and bleeding profusely, she said physicians didn’t explain that she had options for care.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2025

The standard of care for miscarrying patients in the second trimester is to offer to empty the uterus, according to leading medical organizations, which can lower the risk of contracting an infection and developing sepsis.

From Salon Feb. 21, 2025

But Anna Malnutt said she went back to work three days after miscarrying: "I just didn't really know how long was OK to take, and I felt like I needed to go back."

From BBC Jan. 14, 2025

Q. Who else are in danger of miscarrying here?—A.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan




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