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1) You must pause when you come to the period at the end of a sentence.
2) You have math during 5th period.
3) You were a fast runner during the Jurassic period of the Mesozoic era.
4) For a long period he didn't come to the studio at all.
5) Period costumes, particularly the ladies ' exquisite dresses, were excellent.
Not once do those sentences refer to menstrual flow...
I would be very loath to say that 'most adults take period to mean "A woman is having her period". ' I think it is definitely a contextual thing.
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