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Recent Examples of dunghill
In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.
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Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dunghill
Noun
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How that ratio of truth to horse manure will manifest in the shenanigans of season two is anyone’s guess.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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Regulation possible moving forward While horseback riding companies and scientists may not agree on how harmful horse manure is, both sides see a possibility for compromise on regulation.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And like the wildebeest, bison dung packs a nutritional punch when deposited across the landscape.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
29 Aug. 2025
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Decades before Colorado’s best singers, dancers and actors graced the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in downtown Denver, workers pushed brooms across the stage to clean up elephant dung, rodeo sawdust, and blood spatters from boxing matches.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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According to the study, the guano’s byproducts accelerated the formation of clouds by 10,000 times.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2025
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The team is also working on restoring the habitat across the island, which was stripped of all its vegetation during its time as an erstwhile guano mining spot.—
Tim Chester,
AFAR Media,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Deputies who responded to the scene said the home was covered in trash and smelled of human excrement.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Human excrement can contain a wide range of parasites, bacteria, and viruses that can contaminate bodies of water, causing harm not only to humans but also to flora and fauna.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The musket balls were found together near a midden by the metal detectorist, cultural heritage coordinator Anthony Simmons said in the release, meaning a member of the First Nations could have brought the shot belt there and then discarded it.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2025
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This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.—
Smithsonian Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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One reader emailed us to emphatically declare Andrew the worst, citing its homeless population, garbage and bird poop.—
Isabelle Friedman,
Boston Herald,
31 Aug. 2025
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Want the poop on this pathetic history?—
Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Even from a young age, Ann seeks transcendence, and Fastvold conveys both the dark crowded muck of poverty and the young girl’s airy dreams of light and love.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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Over the last 15 years, more than two-thirds of the waterway has been slowly brought back to life through concerted efforts to remove or cap toxic muck.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
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Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
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Israel has been engaged in a war with Gaza since a deadly 2023 terrorist attack on Israeli soil, which has seen ballistic missiles and rockets fired at the country.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Dunghill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dunghill. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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