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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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But even in the cases of those who miscarry and are denied medical care, there's not much concern.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2024

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

And staff who miscarry after six months will still be offered paid maternity leave.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 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

If someone miscarries at home, the onus is on them to collect a clean sample of the tissue and take it to their hospital within 24 hours.

From The Guardian ● May 5, 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

In 2008, one sister triplet was miscarried, while two of her sisters lived "for a significant amount of time", but NUH registered all three babies as miscarriages.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

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

She’d nearly miscarried in the first trimester, and now that she was approaching twenty weeks, she was beginning to have contractions.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

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

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

Witness.—The waste of infant life was enormous owing to the expectant mother miscarrying....

From Stand Up, Ye Dead by Norman Maclean




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