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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

Listeria infections are especially serious for anyone who is pregnant, as a listeria infection during pregnancy can cause a patient to miscarry, deliver a stillbirth, or deliver the baby early.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2025

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

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

In one case, a pregnant woman miscarried after becoming ill, the agency said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 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

She never rode since she fell years ago and miscarried the baby that would have come between Lyddie and Charles.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025

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

So much that it was within a hair of miscarrying.

From Success and How He Won It by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner




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