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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
menstruate .
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Examples
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While training for a top competition, Marie rarely menstruates – not uncommon for such athletes – before her body starts failing from right under her.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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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
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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
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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
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What if she menstruates all over some important legislation??
Obama backer compares Clinton to 'Fatal Attraction' character 2008
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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.
Elizabeth Scharpf and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff: When a Period Ends More Than A Sentence 2009
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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.
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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.
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The average women living now menstruates hundreds of times in her life.
What your Waist-to-Hip Ratio Says About Your Health Field Notes 2008
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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.
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