Lose
Lose verb - To be unable to find or have at hand.
Move back
Move back verb - Pull back or move away or backward.
Both terms in one sentence
- With one team planning to move back to San Francisco and the other two potentially skipping town altogether, Oakland could very well lose its status as a major league city by decade's end.
Source: Butt Monkey / Sports -
Judah believes Tamar to be cursed, and doesn't want to lose his last son; he tells Tamar to move back in with her parents and wait for Shelah to grow up, at which point he'll become hers... but once Shelah comes of age, he is married to another woman.
Source: Chosen Conception Partner
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