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miscarry


  • v  be unsuccessful
  • v  suffer a miscarriage

  • As the selected Plays demonstrate, Kleist was the first great absurdist, obsessed with justice and the black-comic ways in which it can miscarry.
  • Last year the company considered raising money to expand; but the capital market was so stagnant that directors, fearing the plan might miscarry, called it all off.
  • As many as half of fertilized eggs naturally miscarry, usually before the prospective mother even knows she was pregnant.
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  • Al Sharpton in International Herald Tribune
    This verdict is one round down, but the fight is far from over,Sharpton said on his radio show. "What we saw in court today was not a miscarriage of justice. Justice didn't miscarry. This was an abortion of justice."

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