guano

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Recent Examples of guano Although primarily related to bird guano and agriculture rather than bat guano and gunpowder, the Guano Islands Act highlighted just how strategically important guano had become in American history. Scott Travers, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 How does seeing that black mold and guano in person change the story for you? Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2025 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 Clinicians need to ask about bat guano exposure in cannabis growers to discuss preventive measures and establish timely diagnoses. Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for guano
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Deputies who responded to the scene said the home was covered in trash and smelled of human excrement.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Qatar denounces ‘cowardly’ Israeli strike targeting Hamas leaders Israel launched an aerial strike against senior Hamas leaders in Doha on Tuesday, in its first direct attack on Qatari soil, marking a significant escalation in regional tensions.
    Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • What Mill does is preserve food as a resource, keeping nutrients intact so they can be used to feed soil or farms.
    Chelsea Davis, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Six months later, the internship — some of which bore all the glamour of scrubbing bird poop and bucketing hundreds of pounds of fish as dolphin food — developed into a full-time gig as a trainer.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Clearing out the poop from the animals’ enclosures is a significant part of the zoo’s daily energy usage.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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 11 Sep. 2025.

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