the curse

noun

old-fashioned + informal
: the process of menstruation

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Having led the match tiebreak 6-3, the curse started to take hold. James Hansen, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025 The mom of two's mouth then dropped as her son smiled at her, before repeating the curse word for a final time. Escher Walcott, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025 He isn’t afflicted by the curse of Englishness, with its inflexible binaries, its violent categorizations of humans, its shaping even of their most secret and shameful desires. Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025 Kansas City was listless throughout the game, being shut out for nearly three quarters and potentially suffering from the curse of President Donald Trump picking them to win. James Powel, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the curse

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“The curse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20curse. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.

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