contraception

Example Sentences

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Nichola, who grew up in London, started taking contraception to try and manage the bleeding but as time went on her symptoms got worse.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Female hamadryas baboons given hormonal contraception lived 29 percent longer, while castrated males lived 19 percent longer.

From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026

You can continue to use Natural Cycles as contraception while tracking perimenopause symptoms, as long as you aren’t on hormonal birth control or hormone replacement therapy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

“We’re going to see an increase in unmet need for contraception, an increase in unintended pregnancies and, as a consequence of that, increases in maternal deaths,” Shaw said.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2025

Since then we have been criticized for our choice of the term "Birth Control" to express the idea of modern scientific contraception.

From The Pivot of Civilization by Sanger, Margaret