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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

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

“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

Mom told me those types of pregnancies frequently miscarry early on, but not always.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

When she nearly miscarries, he convinces her to marry him and move to his company’s sponsored enclave that’s popping with pregnant women like her.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Then there is the well-known problem of incomplete miscarriage, which may arise after a patient miscarries naturally, or begins a medication abortion.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2022

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

Owens has maintained, online and in court testimony, that she was pregnant and later miscarried.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

But after a bleed early on, a test showed Rhiannon had miscarried at eight weeks.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025

Three times she miscarried while trying to give me an heir.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

"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

The standard of care is to offer miscarrying women a procedure to empty the uterus.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2024

At the End of our March all our Powder-Waggons were plac'd breast a-breast, and so close, that one miscarrying would leave little doubt of the Fate of all the rest.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Daniel Defoe


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