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But he was also accused of being an “Instagram douche meets cult leader” and “Steve Jobs meets Jim Jones”.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020

“We don’t like what we see now & sadly ppl still romanticize, venerate and imitate huge douche bags from the past. So calling it out is right.”

From Fox News ● Feb. 20, 2019

Indeed, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend that women do not douche, and that they allow the vagina to maintain its normal healthy population of protective microbial flora.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Knowing how this show treats Avery, it also wouldn't surprise me if he went back into full douche mode and tried to put the moves on her.

From Slate ● May 3, 2013

Professor Barzia, who treated the prince personally and twice a day gave him his cold-water douche in the palace, seemed to be least uneasy about Othomar's physical weakness.

From Majesty A Novel by Couperus, Louis

Since the dawn of civilization it’s been the human race versus a few power-lord douches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

Black women also reported higher use of feminine hygiene products, like douches, which have been linked with higher levels of ortho-phthalates.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

“Vaginal pH is maintained by lactobacilli. Soaps, cleansers and douches will only hurt this bacteria, so they are all bad pH-wise,” Gunter wrote in a recent New York Times piece.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2020

From pink pills to help women with so-called hysteria, to vaginal douches to keep them "clean", the historical displays show how gynaecology has often been dominated by superstition and ignorance.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2018

A second Purgatory she styled the douches, and, doubtless, in those non-washing days, a second Purgatory it would have been to most folks.

From East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

Back in 1985, according to the National Survey of Family Growth, 37 percent of American women aged 15-44 regularly douched.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2011

Then she was douched with bicarbonate and bore four males, two females.

From Time Magazine Archive

He swayed and turned them with his stream of talk, he douched them cold, he blew them warm, he startled them, and touched them.

From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne

And yet she had not douched the flame of defiance which she had felt burning within her on the night of Pimpernel Schley's first appearance on the London stage.

From The Woman with the Fan by Hichens, Robert Smythe

The operation finished, the foot is again douched in an antiseptic solution, the wound mopped dry with carbolized tow, dressed with either of the dressings described on page 358, and finally bandaged.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

I recently spoke to two colorectal surgeons for a previous question posed to this column about douching that required a rather intricate answer.

From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2019

Almost no one could be Joan Collins douching with diamonds, but you could see yourself as Grace Van Owen’s forever-lunching legal eagle.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2018

These days, douching seems as ancient as dial-up, with just 12 percent of women aged 18-44 using the feminine hygiene products.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2011

Owing to the general condition of the patient, it is usually impossible to employ nasal douching or mouth washes, but spraying the cavities with peroxide of hydrogen or other antiseptics may be employed with benefit.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

He became an outside patient of this institution, and seemed to enjoy thoroughly the routine of bathing, douching, packing, etc.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward