When you are so excited for something that you actually have contractions. This occurrence happens with both genders and will typically cause intense butterflies in the stomach and jumping up and down.
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"Before the microscope, 'cells' didn't exist as facts—they were constructed when lens-grinders, biologists, and specimen-stainers created the conditions to see them. Scientific Constructivism just asks us to remember that facts have factories, and the factories matter."
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"You think scientific facts are just out there waiting to be found? Epistemological Constructivism says: no, they're constructed through instruments, theories, funding decisions, and lab meetings. They're real, but they're also built. Respect the construction workers or you don't understand the building."
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Man, I was stuck in traffic and desperately needed to go number two. It was so urgent that I experienced pucker contractions like when you use a muscle stimulator. Thankfully, I found an offramp and a restroom at a gas station.
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