tampon
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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
In 2021, the government removed the so-called "tampon tax" on period products including sanitary pads and menstrual cups.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2023
Around her dress, Taylor had constructed a makeshift bandolier out of airplane seat belts, a pink unicorn wallet, and a tampon carrying case.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Immigrants detained at two federal facilities in California have launched a boycott in protest of increasing and, in their view, burdensome prices at the facilities’ commissaries for items including tampons, coffee and soup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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
Dr Nighat Arif, a GP who specialises in women's health, started talking to her six-year-old son when he found one of her tampons in the bathroom.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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
