as in infertile
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as in failing
to go wrong
the scheme to save the stranded dolphins miscarried, and all were lost
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Recent Examples of miscarrying
Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Welch ended up miscarrying shortly before she was scheduled to perform at a festival in Cornwall.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2025
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Kylie noted that the experience of miscarrying her first pregnancy made future pregnancies a challenge for her mentally.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscarrying
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Many remote lodges, however, are stunted by unfixable geographic challenges, like infertile land.—
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Datini’s bride, Margherita, proved to be infertile; with no one to inherit his business empire, and increasingly concerned about the fate of his immortal soul, Datini left much of his estate to causes benefitting the poor.—
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Rams 23, 49ers 20 Lock of the Week Much was made this week about the Bills failing to acquire a wide receiver at the trade deadline and whether that handicaps their Super Bowl chances.—
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There was excessive growth of microtubules that wasn’t caused by an increase in gene activity, but likely due to the cells failing to clear away old or misfolded proteins.—
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Mayfield completed his first six passes before misfiring on a cross-field, 13-yard toss to Payne Durham, who was wide open in the end zone.—
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Mayfield completed his first six passes before misfiring on a cross-field, 13-yard toss to Payne Durham, who was wide open in the end zone.—
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In the 19th century, guano miners razed the place, removing most of the topsoil and leaving behind barren rock.—
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The next two teams on this list find themselves in eerily similar situations, from barren rosters to enviable cap space to hope at the quarterback position.—
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As oblivion approached, with all its attendant possibilities of panic or bitterness, Bowie summoned the generosity to evoke the ordeal of one prematurely dying man while also thinking and creating at the no less vast scale of life itself.—
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Since the late 1980s, newspapers like the Press and the Post-Gazette have been dying a slow death with loss of circulation and advertising revenue that's all but disappeared since the birth of the internet.—
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Miami’s first drive stalls A Carson Beck sack ultimately led to Miami’s first drive of the game stalling near midfield.—
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Because of these risks, the security implications of adopting AI are mounting faster than many enterprises can manage, leading to serious discussions on how to keep these systems safe without stalling progress.—
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“Miscarrying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscarrying. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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