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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

UK workers who miscarry before 24 weeks have no legal right to maternity or parental-bereavement leave - although, a number of large companies, including Tesco, Lidl, John Lewis and Santander, offer it.

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

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

Anne miscarried, and the medallion was never issued.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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

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

It doesn’t capture what happened to miscarrying patients who were turned away from emergency rooms or those like Barnica who were made to wait, then discharged home before they returned with 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

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

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2024

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

It shows us plainly that not only has something happened elsewhere, but that the Boxer plan is miscarrying in Peking itself.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale


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