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By Wednesday evening, only three boxes of generic ibuprofen chewables, two boxes of generic acetaminophen chewables and six boxes of suppository acetaminophen remained.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

If you do, you'll be given an antifungal prescription like fluconazole, or told to purchase an over-the-counter cream or ointment, or a suppository that's inserted into the vagina.

From US News ● Dec. 22, 2015

He said: "No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom."

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2013

And so I pushed myself, learned to eat and dress and steady a suppository in spastic fingers, to sit and stand and walk.

From Slate ● May 1, 2013

Once a nurse inserted a suppository to loosen his bowels and did not return, although he cramped his finger ringing the buzzer, until after he had soiled his pajamas.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

According to Le Monde newspaper, the devices were nicknamed "suppositories" by prison inmates because of their ease of concealment.

From BBC ● May 20, 2025

Humans have been controlling their reproduction for all of recorded history, from ancient Egyptian vaginal suppositories made of animal dung to spermicidal ointments made with cedar and olive oil employed by 4th Century Greeks.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2023

Despite the prohibition in the Hippocratic Oath, gynecological texts were replete with recipes for contraceptive and abortive suppositories.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 11, 2020

Kinder ™ egg suppositories are already responsible for a greater flow of goods annually than the government’s botched Brexit ferry scheme.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2019

Only really suitable suppositories, guaranteed to be made in accordance with accredited medical formulæ, should be used.

From Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity by William Arbuthnot Lane