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Recent Examples of guano
Penguin poop, also known as guano, is notoriously smelly.
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Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2025
Even after the penguins migrated from the area, the ammonia concentration was still more than 100 times higher than the baseline, as the penguin guano left at the colony site continued to emit the gas.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 24 May 2025
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
How does seeing that black mold and guano in person change the story for you?
—Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2025
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Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2025
Even after the penguins migrated from the area, the ammonia concentration was still more than 100 times higher than the baseline, as the penguin guano left at the colony site continued to emit the gas.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 24 May 2025
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
How does seeing that black mold and guano in person change the story for you?
—Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guano
Noun
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Moreover, the purification and refining process works with many types of biowaste, notably food, sewage sludge, algal bloom, swine manure, and agricultural residue.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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Her year-round process includes cleaning up the old vines, planting cover crops to protect the soil, running tests and spreading manure to prepare the patch for spring.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The president prefers posting AI slop videos of himself dumping excrement on city-dwellers than working for them.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Sheep’s wool is also highly damaging to vital river systems, as excrement from the UK’s 31 million sheep and chemical sheep dips run into waterways, causing suffocating eutrophication.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Rodents left dung pieces in the bun storage area (over 25); dry storage shelves (over 10); the front counter cabinet where the soda machine equipment is (over 10); and behind the air conditioning unit on the second floor (over 20).—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
17 Oct. 2025
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Or that tossed off, scrapped, relegated to the dung heap of failed work, the unconscious keeps turning and turning the deep images and obsessions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This World Cup, held on home soil, represents both a golden opportunity and a defining moment for Mexican football.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The team excavated several key places on the site, studied cores of soil and conducted an additional LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, survey of the area.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The tax would cover the costs of cleaning up dog poop and other related public-space maintenance.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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No bugs in rice, but rodent poop on seasoning containers in a kitchen storage room (over 30 droppings), next to a kitchen bread mixer (over 10 droppings), on the kitchen floor (over 10), and on top of sanitizer buckers under the kitchen dishwasher (over six).—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Known to be pack rats, Allegheny woodrats will store large piles of food, called middens, in their dens.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
15 Oct. 2025
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In East Chisenbury, sheep dominated the feast, and while the midden contained hundreds of thousands of animals, research showed they were, in contrast, locally sourced.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.—
Alex Beam,
BostonGlobe.com,
2 May 2018
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“Guano.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guano. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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