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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
ovulate .
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Examples
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When she ovulates, her oestrogen is "spiked with the lush brandy of luteinizing hormone", and in spite of her thanking 23 people for their professional editorial assistance with her book, none of them suggested she do anything about the sentence: "Whenever we were in the back yard, Karen would sometimes jump into the hammock with us . . ."
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Occasionally, a woman ovulates more than one egg, and a separate sperm fertilizes each one, resulting in fraternal non-identical twins, triplets, quadruplets, or higher-order multiples.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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Occasionally, a woman ovulates more than one egg, and a separate sperm fertilizes each one, resulting in fraternal non-identical twins, triplets, quadruplets, or higher-order multiples.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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If life begins at conception, then a woman is committing murder every time she ovulates and a man is commuting millions of murders with each ejaculation.
Jeff Schweitzer: Stem Cell Research Again: A Momentous Development 2009
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If life begins at conception (a false premise), then that would mean absurdly that a woman is committing murder every time she ovulates and a man is committing millions of murders with each ejaculation.
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If a woman ovulates and does not become pregnant and allows the egg to decay and flow away with her menses, should she be punished?
Men shouldn't have opinions about women's issues? Steven Barnes 2009
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Should the woman get pregnant everytime she ovulates, or is it ok for her to let those otherwise perfectly good eggs go to waste?
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I can always defer to my OBGYN to be sure about how soon a woman ovulates after child birth and get back to you.
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Because every time a woman ovulates and there's no sperm there to meet and greet, she's stopping the possibility of life.
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No woman ovulates constantly, and pregancy is only possible during ovulation.
What's the Connection?: New Guidelines from the Bishops -- Sure To Be Ignored Debra W. Haffner 2006
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