as in truck
waste material (such as human urine and feces) that is carried away from homes and other buildings in a system of pipes
raw sewage
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Recent Examples of sewage
Wastewater, or sewage, can be tested for infectious diseases even when the people living in a community are not exhibiting any symptoms.
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Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
Maryland has made great strides in restoring underwater grasses in the Upper Bay, but inflows of raw sewage have to be hampering that progress.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025
Questions mixed in the air with the smells of sewage and dust kicked up by bulldozers.
—New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Thames Tideway Tunnel Thanks to the new system, the equivalent of 2,200 Olympic-sized swimming pools of sewage has been prevented from entering the river, to date.
—Adam Williams, New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2025
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Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
Maryland has made great strides in restoring underwater grasses in the Upper Bay, but inflows of raw sewage have to be hampering that progress.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025
Questions mixed in the air with the smells of sewage and dust kicked up by bulldozers.
—New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Thames Tideway Tunnel Thanks to the new system, the equivalent of 2,200 Olympic-sized swimming pools of sewage has been prevented from entering the river, to date.
—Adam Williams, New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sewage
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On Shanghai’s Urumqi Road, where some of the biggest protests occurred, in 2022, a police truck is still parked at a busy intersection of hip boutiques and restaurants.—
Vivian Wang,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2025
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Another snap shows the couple in the driver's seat of the truck, with Wyatt looking at his wife and holding her stomach.—
Kayla Grant,
People.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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Astronomers believe ice connected to small dust grains is where most of the water in the universe can be found — and is likely where the water that created Earth’s oceans originated. SPHEREx will be able to create a map of the sky through different wavelengths of infrared light.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
8 Mar. 2025
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For example, biomedical scientists and clinicians trained by NIH grants are addressing locally relevant issues such as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, commonly known as black lung disease, which occurs when coal dust is inhaled.—
Mitzi Nagarkatti,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
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Traffic congestion, air, water and noise pollution, excessive plastic usage, flooding, and unsatisfactory refuse collection processes, are just some of the problems the Thai capital has to contend with.—
Isabelle Kliger,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The dirty floor was barely visible beneath the immense clutter of half-broken furniture; utensils and cooking appliances were streaked with saucy refuse; and people were packed together, yelling as if there weren’t just two centimeters of void between them.—
Hannah Gold,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Sewage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sewage. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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