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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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She said many women do not share their pregnancy news before the 12-week scan, so if they miscarry earlier, they can struggle to know who to talk to which can be isolating.

From BBC Nov. 28, 2025

Known as Oropouche virus, it can trigger a fever that may cause pregnant people to miscarry or their babies to have birth defects known as microcephaly, or smaller than usual heads.

From Salon Mar. 20, 2025

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

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

One of its most talked-about sequences came when Fleabag’s sister miscarries in a restaurant toilet cubicle.

From The Guardian Feb. 22, 2020

Is a woman who miscarries early responsible for fishing her small, sometimes hard-to-identify embryo out of a blood-filled toilet bowl before flushing?

From New York Times Jan. 5, 2019

"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

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

And it could have meant more barriers to care when she miscarried during a subsequent pregnancy and ended up turning to an online pharmacy after one in Austin delayed filling her prescription.

From Slate May 21, 2025

When Estella miscarried a third time, the doctor spelled the consequences out more plainly: “Another pregnancy could kill your wife.”

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

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

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

This report, combined with her symptoms, indicated she was miscarrying.

From Salon Nov. 25, 2024

It was then in the deadly sickness of fear that there came to Dan the dread of miscarrying forever if he should die now.

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir




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