as in soil
solid discharge from farm animals that is used to make soil better for growing plants
a bag of cow manure
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Recent Examples of manure
Hay bales stacked 5 to 6 feet tall now line the property, along with a trench filled with rocks and what appears to be manure.
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Quinn Clark, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
City street cleaners had once picked up horse manure, so wasn’t this their job?
—Rachel Sugar, Curbed, 8 Apr. 2026
The challenge is that manure is already extremely nutrient-dense—often providing far more nitrogen and phosphorus than even a productive garden requires.
—Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
For example, milk can be contaminated by manure or environmental filth, infections of the udder such as mastitis or from surfaces during the milking process.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026
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Quinn Clark, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
City street cleaners had once picked up horse manure, so wasn’t this their job?
—Rachel Sugar, Curbed, 8 Apr. 2026
The challenge is that manure is already extremely nutrient-dense—often providing far more nitrogen and phosphorus than even a productive garden requires.
—Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
For example, milk can be contaminated by manure or environmental filth, infections of the udder such as mastitis or from surfaces during the milking process.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manure
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As a low-maintenance tree, the mulberry thrives in various soil types and is drought-tolerant once established.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
24 Apr. 2026
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Craig Adair, vice president of development at Open Road Renewables, which has pursued renewable energy projects in several states, has fielded a range of concerns over the years — from how soil could be contaminated to the possibility of electromagnetic fields causing cancer.—
Anna Clark,
ProPublica,
24 Apr. 2026
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They can be sampled using standardized trapping methods worldwide, since they are easily attracted to dung and carrion, which allows for comparable data across different regions.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2026
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Yes, unfortunately, the ancient Irish did burn cow dung to heat their homes when peat was too expensive or not available.—
David McGrath,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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Popular with airboaters, froggers and fishermen, the swampy muck beneath the water may have acted as a pincushion, essentially swallowing the disabled DC-9 aircraft.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
21 Apr. 2026
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This was scooping muck from the reaches of his lungs.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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Domestic charges against Paul were dropped after she was seen on a video throwing a metal stool at Mortensen.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
21 Apr. 2026
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Ingesting rat poison could lead to bleeding gums and nosebleeds as well as bruising and blood in the stool.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026
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The dog-waste donnybrook was similar to another recent clash in Brooklyn that saw a 75-year-old grandmother jumped and beaten for complaining that a dog walker was not cleaning up the pooch’s poop.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2026
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For all of that time, Jimmy Patronis, now a Panhandle congressman, was Florida’s chief financial officer, the man responsible for paying the state’s bills and rooting out waste and fraud.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Manure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manure. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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