birth control pill

collocation in English

meaningsofbirth,controlandpill

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birth
noun
uk
/bɜːθ/us
/bɝːθ/
the time when a baby or young animal comes out of its ...
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control
noun
uk
/kənˈtrəʊl/us
/kənˈtroʊl/
the act of controlling something or someone, or the power to ...
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pill
noun[C]
uk
/pɪl/us
/pɪl/
a small solid piece of medicine that a person swallows without chewing (= crushing with ...
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(Definition ofbirth,controlandpillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Please do not forget to give the name of any birthcontrolpillthat you mention.
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One is the birthcontrolpill.
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The birthcontrolpillaffected marriage, fertility, and career choice.
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I think that we are moving to the same sort of situation in regard to the birthcontrolpill.
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Prime among them, at that time, was the first birthcontrolpill.
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It may have the potential to be the basis for a birthcontrolpillfor men.
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However, only 40% of the population actually used the birthcontrolpill.
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From an economic point of view, the birthcontrolpillreduced the cost of staying in school.
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She headed the first, large scale, clinical trials of the first birthcontrolpillin the late 1950s.
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The availability of the birthcontrolpillin 1960 made it possible for women to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy.
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He called for the distribution of the birthcontrolpill, arguably the most important technological development in history, to reduce fertility rates in developing nations.
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Soon after the birthcontrolpillwas legalized, there was a sharp increase in college attendance and graduation rates for women.
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Although the extremely dangerous side-effects are admitted, they are statistically no more likely to occur than side-effects from the birthcontrolpill.
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The reasons for this big jump in the 1970s has been attributed by some scholars to widespread access to the birthcontrolpill.
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