tampon
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"I didn't know the difference between a pad and a tampon," she said.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
I got my period and asked a woman in the train station for a tampon.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
It's childish and weird to act like even looking at a tampon box will emasculate you.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2024
One consumer study conducted in 2022 found that out of 23 tampon brands lab tested, 22% contained indications of PFAS.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
A few weeks later, Izzy had been digging through her bag, desperately looking for a tampon, when Deja had discreetly leaned across the aisle and extended a folded hand.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
A decade of loyalty card data across 211 million transactions in an unnamed chain of high street stores in England found paracetamol was the most common painkiller bought alongside tampons and sanitary towels.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 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
Incarcerated women don’t need permission to obtain menstrual products: Women in prisons and jails now have full access to period-care products like pads and tampons under AB 1810.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025
“It’s not normalizing anything if everyone just pretends they don't see it or that the tampons don't exist.”
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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
