Lose in a sentence as a verb

Debating it on the merits is going to make you lose.

"Nobody picks a date and says "from that point on, I'm going to grow up and lose my sense of wonder", but still it happens.

I'm really good at the job I'm in, but I rapidly lose qualifications for jobs I used to be in.

On the **** side, if you are lax on insulin, your blood sugar might hover around 250 for months, and you will feel close to normal.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

FeeFighters could in fact give a **** about their actual accreditation, so they had nothing to lose.

Don't lose data, be very deterministic with data> 2.

Paypal loses more on a $1,000,000-in-transactions account which goes bad than a $1,000-in-transactions account which goes bad, clearly.

What people here aren't getting with the references to XBox and iOS is that Notch's objections aren't to closed platforms.

It was only able to reach closed markets like iOS and XBox because of its success as a side project on an open platform.

They usually have to fire you for cause for you to lose your options, so figure out what the angle is they're using and make sure they don't have cause.

This means, however, you are 7% likely to lose all the money, and we only make .9% margins, so this is going to be a No. We get that you don't like this.

For example with replica sets, you can do things like dont acknowledge this write until its on nodes in at least 2 data centers.> 2. MongoDB can lose data in many startling ways> 1.

We have never shipped a release with a secret bug or anything remotely close to that and then secretly told certain clients.

In an extreme case they might lose their job and take a reputation hit, but most likely they'll just leave and get a higher salary elsewhere.

If you lose your ability to feel joy and excitement about programming-related things, you'll be unable to do the best work.

These companies would prefer you rot in the dark, than to lose one bit of profit.- Three, if one of these devices is not 100% perfect, it gets shot down and banned from the market.

We as a nation lose out. While he can't single-handedly deserve credit for our slide into partisan bickering and bureaucracy, he proudly contributes more than his share.

"However, executives at Starz apparently concluded that they would lose even more money by giving consumers a reason to subscribe to Netflix instead of the cable channel.

The defining characteristic of the Sociopaths elite is 'the basic heads-I-win-tails-you-lose pattern behind all Sociopath machinations.

One of the easiest things to do in poetry is to lose the reader--a great poet can put an incredibly complicated multilayered concept onto a small amount of paper--and require a graduate-level understanding from the reader to understand it.

Notch strongly believes that the computer should stay a bastion of openness in order to sustain a indie game community--indeed, the majority of my own games I play today are small, independent games that provide a unique experience that I would hate to lose due to higher barriers to entry.

Lose definitions

verb

fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"

verb

fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war"

verb

suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"

verb

place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"

See also: misplace mislay

verb

miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"

verb

allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"

verb

fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"

verb

fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"

verb

retreat

See also: recede

verb

fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"

See also: miss

verb

be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation"

See also: suffer