tampon
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The European Commission—the EU’s executive arm—said Tuesday that the sale fully addresses officials’ earlier concerns that the deal could hinder competition in tampon markets in Czech Republic, Estonia, and Slovakia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
I got my period and asked a woman in the train station for a tampon.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
A consumer study published in 2022 by the watchdog group Mamavation in partnership with Environmental Health News found that 22% of the 23 lab-tested tampon brands contained indications of PFAS.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024
It's childish and weird to act like even looking at a tampon box will emasculate you.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2024
Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
In the show’s version of King’s infamous shower scene, where Carrie reacts to her first period with hysteria and gets pelted with tampons and pads, her tormentors also aim their phone cameras at her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
It didn’t work: By early this year many sections of the bridge were littered with locks and other rubbish, including unused tampons, a foot influencer’s single sock and a pill bottle with a Hungarian label.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Some may ask for menstrual hygiene products, like pads and tampons.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026
Every day, 2.5 million tampons are flushed down the toilet when they should be placed in a bin.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen one in the wild, and didn't really care to.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
The trachea must be divided and tamponed by a Trendelenburg canula, after which the larynx must be carefully dissected out.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
The after-treatment consists in tamponing the wound with pledgets of iodoform gauze or a mixture of iodoform 1 part and glycerin 4 parts.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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