How to Use foreskin in a Sentence
foreskin
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The probability of infection is also increased, adds Dr. Goldberg, since the foreskin has bacteria and is harder to clean.
—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 3 Mar. 2023
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Including this serum that was made from the foreskin of a poor, poor baby.
—Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2017
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The foreskin is then processed, packaged, and sold as a high-end anti-aging cream.
—Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 14 Aug. 2019
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In places where the disease is common and treatment is patchy, removing foreskins can be a cost-effective way to fight it.
—The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
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Before the foreskin serum is applied, Louise preps skin with peels, a micro-needling wand, and an electrifying mask.
—Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 14 Mar. 2018
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There are descriptions of foreskin and Popeye-like forearms.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2022
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The religious ritual involves a rabbi sucking a small amount of blood out of an infant's wound with his mouth after the baby's foreskin has been removed.
—Christina Capatides, CBS News, 19 July 2017
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The foreskin is collected during circumcision, at which point the stem cells are extracted through a centrifuge.
—Maria Del Russo, Glamour, 4 May 2018
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The growth factor used in this case is foreskin — harvested and extracted from the stem cells of a Korean newborn's circumcised foreskin.
—Samantha Sasso, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2018
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Starting with a small square of foreskin, the fibroblasts can be multiplied to cover several football fields.
—Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2021
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But parts of the remaining redundant foreskin were inflamed and, along with the termini of the erstwhile skin bridge, covered in what looked like a dense layer of Eastern European soot.
—Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
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Smegma, a bodily secretion made up of dead skin cells and oily secretions, settles beneath the foreskin.
—Christina Oehler, Health.com, 20 June 2019
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Furthermore, Jewish and Muslim males would be born without foreskins.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2017
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Wanking, at the time, was linked to a whole host of ailments, including epilepsy and insanity, and cutting off the super-sensitive foreskin was designed to prevent them.
—Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Mar. 2018
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A mohel, who is the rabbi performing the ritual, briefly places his mouth over the cut after removal of the foreskin of the penis and sucks out a small amount of blood, ceremonially purifying the area.
—Bob Jordan, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2017
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In the same article, Gairdner proposes that the foreskin is far from vestigial, a term applied to features that have lost their function during evolution.
—Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2022
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An uncircumcised infant’s foreskin is naturally tight, but will relax as the child grows.
—Susan Reslewic Keatley, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
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The team take specimens of brain, spinal cord, lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, spleen, muscle, bone marrow, adrenal glands, thyroid, lymph nodes, genital-tract tissues, foreskin and intestine.
—The Economist, 31 May 2018
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In the last century and a half of American history, many claims have been made about the effects of keeping or removing one's foreskin, both passionately in favor of and passionately against it.
—Matt Thompson, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
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Jesse’s vampire friend Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) is captured and tortured by having his foreskin repeatedly removed.
—Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 14 Aug. 2019
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The first few all involving making sure my face is super-clean — all the better to, counterintuitively, dirty it up later with Korean baby foreskin — go figure.
—Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 16 May 2018
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Some Jewish scholars thought that uncircumcised men would prove too irresistible for Jewish women, and that men without a foreskin would not be led into constant temptation.
—Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
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The foreskin can be a source of multiple medical problems in older men, thus justifying later-in-life circumcision.
—The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
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Circumcision involves surgically cutting off some or all of a penis’s foreskin.
—Zahra Barnes, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018
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Bloodstained Men & Their Friends is a non-profit organization dedicated to giving victims of genital cutting a voice and educating Americans about the harms of infant circumcision and the importance of the foreskin.
—Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 23 Mar. 2018
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Some medical professionals have argued the foreskin — though often seen as useless and inconvenient — may actually serve a crucial, hidden purpose.
—Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2022
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Since babies are born with their foreskins intact, uncircumcised penises are actually the biological default.
—Zahra Barnes, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018
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