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Recent Examples of stool
Anyone experiencing symptoms of diarrhea, blood in their stool, fever, and fatigue, should seek medical help.
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Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
The other showed the athlete sitting on a stool holding flowers with Wilson's arm around her shoulders holding onto the sonogram.
—Kayla Grant, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Practicing good hygiene: For females, this includes wiping from front to back after a bowel movement, which reduces exposure to bacteria from stool.
—Matthew Wosnitzer, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2025
Poltrona Frau stools add refinement to the galley, which also serves a dual purpose as an owner and guest area – the owners love to cook.
Ceilings, Paszkowski points out, also feature prominently in the design.
—Bill Springer, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
The other showed the athlete sitting on a stool holding flowers with Wilson's arm around her shoulders holding onto the sonogram.
—Kayla Grant, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Practicing good hygiene: For females, this includes wiping from front to back after a bowel movement, which reduces exposure to bacteria from stool.
—Matthew Wosnitzer, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2025
Poltrona Frau stools add refinement to the galley, which also serves a dual purpose as an owner and guest area – the owners love to cook.
Ceilings, Paszkowski points out, also feature prominently in the design.
—Bill Springer, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
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Seabirds transport nitrogen and phosphorus from the ocean to the land in their poop, increasing the density of plants on islands.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
11 Mar. 2025
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Wild birds that carry flu viruses in their guts and shed them in their poop are believed to be the main way H5N1 has been introduced onto farms.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN,
18 Feb. 2025
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The bathtub and toilets were overflowing with human excrement, and authorities said the mother did not leave any toilet paper or personal hygiene products.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
17 Feb. 2025
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Finally, liquid bat guano and liquid earthworm castings (guano and castings are euphemisms for excrement) are also utilized for foliar fertilization.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
14 Feb. 2025
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Actions mattered more than words, and Nuwan’s were as repugnant as elephant dung.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Here’s some of what the inspector found: About nine pieces of rodent dung in the lobby behind the drink station counter.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
28 Jan. 2025
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a key Kremlin ally who allowed Russia to launch its invasion of Ukraine partially from Belarusian soil, is also in Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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That would be decided later based on studies of possible locations, soil conditions, traffic, environmental constraints and other issues.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Mar. 2025
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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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For millennia, people collected these precious substances—often in the wee hours, giving rise to the term night soil—and used them to grow food.—
Julia Rosen,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2021
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Consider tilling compost or composted manure into the planting bed.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
9 Mar. 2025
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The composting bin contains some 250,000 red wiggler worms that feast on the manure of the animals and poultry that live on the farm, and decompose plant detritus, coffee grounds, and table scraps as well.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
8 Mar. 2025
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Despite recent concerns about an increase in cat consumption, the scientists found feline remnants in only about 4.5 percent of the scat samples.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
22 Jan. 2025
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These congregation areas will often have many tracks and scat from coyotes and fox, but setting traps in these high traffic areas will only lead to conflict with the public and a rise in anti-trapping sentiment.—
Skye Goode,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
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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 24 Mar. 2025.
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