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Recent Examples of miscarry The Indigenous actor, who grew up on the Montana reservation of the Blackfeet Nation, knew as a kid that her mother had miscarried only a few months before becoming pregnant with Gladstone. Elaina Patton, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2025 This installment also establishes Jigsaw’s tragic backstory, showing how he was compelled to kill offenders after a violent drug addict caused Jill to miscarry their child. Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 10 May 2025 Among them, Frank said, were hundreds of women who had developed fertility issues, had miscarried, or had children with defects. Maddy Crowell, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025 On an episode of the podcast Second Wind, the former Bachelor, 44, spoke about discovering that his wife had miscarried for the first time. Hannah Sacks, People.com, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for miscarry
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Verb
  • Last July, when the blade failed, foam fiberglass and other debris settled to the ocean floor, entered the water table and littered Nantucket beaches for months.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2025
  • The agency failed to answer thousands of calls from flood survivors after allowing contracts for call-center workers to lapse one day after the disaster, according to The New York Times.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • But on July 15, his aide couldn't work, so the trip was stalled.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 26 July 2025
  • As a heat wave stalls over much of the U.S., a tropical system — similar to last week’s rainmaker over Louisiana and Mississippi — is struggling to organize in the Gulf.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 25 July 2025
Verb
  • The department’s homicide unit is investigating the death, as is the department’s protocol when someone dies while in custody.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • In Gaza, though, no one knows precisely how many people have died, or what proportion were innocents; the Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas, maintains that more than half were women and children.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025

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“Miscarry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscarry. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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