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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of menstruate.

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Examples

  • While training for a top competition, Marie rarely menstruates – not uncommon for such athletes – before her body starts failing from right under her.

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  • After a girl first menstruates, she must have as little contact as possible with men outside the immediate family.

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  • After a girl first menstruates, she must have as little contact as possible with men outside the immediate family.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • After a girl first menstruates, she must have as little contact as possible with men outside the immediate family.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • What if she menstruates all over some important legislation??

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  • Despite the fact that half the world menstruates, most people overlook the serious repercussions of a lack of affordable sanitary supplies in developing countries.

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  • Somehow, in a Paris of rotten teeth and foul smells, the jewel-eyed victim neither sweats nor menstruates, but gives off a heady aroma that Jean-Baptiste must preserve and replicate.

    Thelma Adams: Perfume: It Smells Like Hypocrisy 2008

  • So if breasts and periods and the basic functions of the reproductive parts of womens bodies have become either unnecessary or obsolete and infinitely manipulatable and manageable with expensive pharmaceuticals, where is the place for a beautifully functioning female body that menstruates without pain and severe PMS, that makes beautiful babies, births them powerfully, feeds them perfectly, and all the other things that female bodies have always done.

    Karen Kisslinger: It's Official: Women are Obsolete 2008

  • The average women living now menstruates hundreds of times in her life.

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  • I'm just not voting for a guy that uses sexist dog whistles to imply that Clinton (and by extension, the entire half of the human population that menstruates, including ME) is unreliable to sit in the oval office.

    quiet angel forget their lies 2008

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