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Recent Examples of stool
The fruit juice group showed no significant improvement in stool weight, said Steenson.
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Cathy Nelson, Health, 21 May 2025
His identity was inextricably wrapped up in that place, and in his trademark stool.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025
Coordinating wood tones on the stools, shelves, and ceiling and woven elements throughout add warmth and texture.
—Libby Monteith Minor, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
Joaquin Lopez using his telescopic stool at St. Peter’s Square on the second day of the conclave.
—Katie Primm, NBC news, 9 May 2025
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Cathy Nelson, Health, 21 May 2025
His identity was inextricably wrapped up in that place, and in his trademark stool.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025
Coordinating wood tones on the stools, shelves, and ceiling and woven elements throughout add warmth and texture.
—Libby Monteith Minor, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
Joaquin Lopez using his telescopic stool at St. Peter’s Square on the second day of the conclave.
—Katie Primm, NBC news, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
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Penguin poop may be playing a key role in keeping climate change in check over Antarctica, new research published May 22 finds.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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What to do instead: Cap every poop attempt at five minutes, Dr. Kassim says.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
23 May 2025
Noun
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At the same time, harvested switchgrass is being adopted as a booster in novel processes to turn chicken litter — excrement and bedding left as byproducts of poultry production — into biofuel.—
Robin Roenker,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Hantavirus can be contracted from exposure to excrement from a mouse species that carries the virus.—
Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But be careful not to hit any of the rodents or the rodent dung.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
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The dung heap is being dismantled by a scrum of hermit crabs.—
Kevin Gepford,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Not just because passenger planes capable of breaking the sound barrier are in development — for the first time ever, they could be allowed to do it over American soil.—
Edward Russell,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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These houses had three types: homes with steps along the wall or that form a passageway, homes built into two levels with higher places with scorched soil for cooking areas and lower spaces for living, and flat-bottomed homes used as living spaces.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
Noun
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This strategy became necessary after an errant tomato plant sprouted from a visitor's night soil back in the 1960s.—
Amy Brady,
Scientific American,
17 Oct. 2023
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The night soil temperatures are not ideal to put them out yet.—
oregonlive,
oregonlive,
1 May 2021
Noun
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Taking the time to work compost, aged manure, worm castings, or other organic matter into garden beds before transplanting makes a world of difference for plants.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Apr. 2025
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On Inauguration Day, Hogan rescinded regulations pertaining to how much animal manure can be spread onto crop fields as fertilizer — a notorious source of water pollution on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where Allman and his colleagues investigated Mountaire chicken operations.—
Kenny Torrella,
Vox,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Clad in survival suits and headlamps, Jennifer Sevigny and Amanda Summers are heading back from a harbor seal gathering in Port Susan Bay with dry bags full of seal scat.—
Cheryl Katz,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
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The team started by looking for the tell-tale signs of snow leopards–footprints, scat, and scratch marks.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
7 May 2025
Noun
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The script was based on the 1979 French play and subsequent 1982 film Le père Noël est une ordure (Santa Claus Is a Stinker).—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
21 Dec. 2024
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On the face of it, packing the ordure of millions into open-air mounds is a terrible approach to a more livable planet, particularly in a part of the world where scavengers don’t comb through them for every salable scrap.—
Curbed,
Curbed,
12 Aug. 2022
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“Stool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stool. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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