stool

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Recent Examples of stool Perched on a stool under the spotlight at his shows, the comedian spends most of the evening delivering hospital-worthy third-degree burns to crowd members who want the smoke. Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025 This foldable stool is easy to move and store for extra table space. Jacqueline Tempera, People.com, 7 July 2025 Hours in the studio: sitting on a stool, staring at the drawer of unwilling brushes and oils, not touching a single one. Clare Sestanovich, New Yorker, 13 July 2025 But no instance could match Wednesday’s, when Plouffe went from his perch in the booth to a stool positioned just beyond the third-base dugout to take over as a ball boy. Dan Hayes, New York Times, 11 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for stool
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Noun
  • This type of fiber helps draw water into poop, keeping it soft and easy to pass.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 28 July 2025
  • Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) peeked into the poop diaries of 1,400 healthy adults to see how bowel movement frequency (BMF) affects their molecular phenotypes, in a pre-disease context.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • As The Athletic wanders around the Queen Elizabeth II Stand, the glances made are like towards excrement on a shoe.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • In fact, some seventeenth-century writers even used the word excrement to describe human hair.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Access to clean cooking equipment in sub-Saharan Africa continues to lag behind other regions, with four in five people using wood, charcoal, or dung as fuel over open fires or using basic stoves, according to an International Energy Agency report.
    Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 23 July 2025
  • When not elbow-deep in dino dung or outrunning raptors, Laura Dern's heartfelt performance in Jurassic Park shows why women really deserve to inherit the Earth — and all of the acting awards.
    Huntley Woods, EW.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • The victory continues England’s success at major international tournaments, with this marking the team’s third final in a row; the Lionesses won the Women’s Euros on home soil in 2022 and lost to Spain in the World Cup final in 2023.
    Ben Morse, CNN Money, 23 July 2025
  • The book deftly expresses both grief for all of the violence perpetrated on American soil and a profound love for all of the beings that inhabit this continent.
    The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The night soil temperatures are not ideal to put them out yet.
    oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 May 2021
Noun
  • The caveat is that manure often has a high nitrogen and salt content that potentially burns plants and causes other issues.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 July 2025
  • The contamination can occur because of sewage, manure or storm runoff.
    Shreya Srinivasan, NBC news, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Anderson, who was in her school's jazz band, thinks her impromptu scat during one of her auditions is what helped her land the role.
    EW.com, EW.com, 8 July 2025
  • Many people don’t understand that human waste doesn’t break down in the same way that animal scat does, for example.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 4 Aug. 2025.

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