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zu verlieren in English:

1. losing losing


I'm losing weight.
If you aren't careful about what you eat, you'll put back on all the weight that you spent so much time losing.
Movie theaters are losing more and more revenue due to internet piracy.
In order to live happily and healthily with parakeets or parrots, you should understand the science of animal behavior for domesticated birds, and consider the emotional effect of eventually losing them.
Losing their breadwinner was a shock to that family, but the insurance money helps a lot.
In our next line of business let's make it our strategy to win by losing.
It's a job worth doing, but if I think about the working hours and the risk ... I could be onto a real losing proposition here.
Because of my recklessness, I have been playing a losing game since childhood.
These days when I hear about these horrible incidents on the news I get the feeling that more and more young people are losing their ability to distinguish between real and virtual worlds.
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
World War II ended and the Olympics were revived in 1948 in London, but the losing countries of the war, Germany and Japan, were not invited.
The restraining role that the community once played is losing its force as adults become reluctant to reprimand other people's unruly children.
I bought it thinking it was cheap, but it was rotten, so I ended up losing out.
Losing his balance from a sudden gust of wind, the tightrope walker fell to his death.

English word "zu verlieren"(losing) occurs in sets:

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