IUD
Americanabbreviation
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Etymology
Origin of IUD
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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By the late 1970s, one in two Greenlandic women of childbearing age -- at least 4,070 women -- had been fitted with an IUD, according to an investigation presented in September 2025.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
"I realised everything it had cost me -- all those hospitalisations, those surgeries, the schooling I missed and, above all, those pains I had never associated with that damn IUD," said Kirstine Najarak Berthelsen.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
After the IUD was placed, she remembers horrific, debilitating cramps.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2026
A tube containing the IUD is then passed through the tiny cervical opening into the uterus, a process that is excruciating for many patients.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2026
Isabella Spector went to the Roseville, Calif., clinic to get her IUD taken out so she and her husband could start a family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
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