circumcision
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He insists the row was not serious enough to dent his "amazing relationship" with Belgium -- throwing in a mildly off-colour joke about circumcision to drive home the point.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
Who can blame the infant, even one so tender and mild, for squawking during his circumcision?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
To summarize, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top federal healthcare official, conjured up a connection between circumcision and autism via a relationship between circumcision and Tylenol that is unsupported by the research he cited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
Three of the rescued boys were briefly admitted to hospital – some for treatment from complications after undergoing circumcision typically done using razor blades.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2024
The old man was a famous ingcibi, a circumcision expert, from Gcalekaland, who would use his assegai to change us from boys to men with a single blow.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
He also said that Belgium’s health minister, whom he called “very rude”, should change the law to allow mohels to perform circumcisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
The reason, its authors wrote, was that “we had no data available on analgesics or possible local anesthetics used during ritual circumcisions in our cohort, so we were unable to address the paracetamol hypothesis directly.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
Bullock’s attorneys also noted that while baptisms were banned, there was no prohibition on Jewish circumcisions or on daycare workers and doctors holding infants.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 11, 2020
King Edmonds said she is not Jewish, but decided to use a mohel, a person who performs circumcisions in the Jewish faith, to perform the procedure in her home.
From Fox News ● Jan. 7, 2020
That’s because the circumcisions don’t take place every year.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
