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  • past tense form of lose.
  • past participle of lose.
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lost

[lawst, lost] / lɔst, lɒst /




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But food historian Peter Gilchrist says many of us have lost the connection to how food is produced.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026

“Should hyperscalers slow or halt the aggressive pace of capex deployment, many borrowers across the supply chain could struggle to replace lost revenue and service their debt,” the BIS said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

The buzz: Germany scored 10 goals in the group stage, but the four-time tournament champions lost to Ecuador and had to rely on a tiebreaker to win the group over the Ivory Coast.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2026

The so-called “Magnificent Seven” group of megacap tech stocks has lost nearly $3 trillion in market cap this month, according to FactSet data.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 28, 2026

I knew that somewhere in the dogs, in their humor and the way they thought, they had great, old knowledge; they had something we had lost.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen




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