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Idiom
To lose (someone).
This is often used when someone is chasing someone OR being chased by someone.
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As Veronica Hegarty says in The Gathering: "What amazes me... is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone.
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Of course, everyone who loses someone wonders why that person had to go.
"Everyone has seen death, everyone has lost someone.
"The national palace, the cathedrals and the ministries have been destroyed, and everyone has lost someone.
"My heart goes out to everyone who lost someone in the trade center," said Roseanne Massa, whose brother, Michael DeBatt, was gunned down by Mr. Gravano in Bensonhurst in 1987.
"I think the common feeling is that whatever happens needs to be a collective decision for everyone who lost someone there.
Contemplating the disappearance of millions during the Rapture, Steele, the airplane pilot, reflects: "Everyone had lost someone, and not a second could pass when one was able forget that.
In my father's generation and my grandfather's generation, everyone has lost someone.
You may have not been divorced, but almost everyone has lost someone and divorce is a type of loss.
"Everyone in Syria lost someone – a brother, a sister.
He told the audience that the song was "for everyone who has lost someone".
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