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Example sentences for: lose

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Some readers may take away the idea from this paper that overweight people should not be advised to lose weight, but Stampfer cautions against that interpretation.
It is interesting to note that despite this intention, as a group, the median weight change in the ensuing six years was a gain of 0.33 kg/m 2 , almost identical to the weight change in the group that had not expressed intent to lose weight (gain of 0.31 kg/m 2 ). Thus, this study cannot fairly be characterized as an assessment of intentional weight loss and its subsequent effect on mortality.
Unless Congress increases funding, Kentucky will lose about $800,000 in 2003 from the federal program that supports Legal Aid because funds are tied to each state's poverty rate.
Christ on a crutch, what does he have to do to lose your support, stab David Geffen with a kitchen knife?
I'm not sure that, in the course of his performance with the Philharmonic, Bashmet didn't once again lose control of . Yet by the end I was nearly sobbing myself.