as in dung
solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal an ordinance that requires dog walkers to remove their animal's excrement from city streets

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Recent Examples of excrement The evil entertainer has yet to force-feed or directly torture any of his unwitting audience members with excrement. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025 In fact, some seventeenth-century writers even used the word excrement to describe human hair. Literary Hub, 9 June 2025 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 Nutrients can come in different forms, including over-fertilizing your garden or lawn or excrement from fish. Lauren David, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for excrement
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Noun
  • And like the wildebeest, bison dung packs a nutritional punch when deposited across the landscape.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
  • 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
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  • This kind of research is critical, particularly in the areas of understanding the gut microbiome, but also for the understanding of complex microbial populations in soil, for example, among roots of growing crops.
    Steven Savage, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Israeli attacks on Syrian soil since Assad’s fall, as well as recent outbreaks of fighting in the Sweida region of southern Syria, underscore the ongoing fragility of the Syrian government and concerns over its ability to contain violence and migration outside of its borders.
    David Mednicoff, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • After more than an hour on the road, the team arrived at a cluster of trailers behind a long dirt path on a grower’s property in South Haven, tight quarters where farmworkers rest after long-hour shifts picking fruit under the Michigan sun.
    David Rodriguez Muñoz, Freep.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Sweep to get rid of any dirt or debris.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Excrement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excrement. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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