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Recent Examples of midden
Although the bones of fish, cattle, sheep and pig were pulled out of the middens (halos of garbage dumped from the huts above), there was no evidence of human casualties.
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Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
The land has been largely untouched for centuries — the Mocama and the Guale tribes had a presence on neighboring St. Simons Island, and while there is little information about Indigenous groups on Little St. Simons, shell middens suggest there was travel between the two.
—Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
The restroom is around the corner, reached by walking past the mosquito-breeding experiment that is a midden of old tires.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
Faith, Chase and Quick sampled middens near Boomplaas Cave last September and received the first radiocarbon dates from the samples earlier this year.
—Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
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Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
The land has been largely untouched for centuries — the Mocama and the Guale tribes had a presence on neighboring St. Simons Island, and while there is little information about Indigenous groups on Little St. Simons, shell middens suggest there was travel between the two.
—Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
The restroom is around the corner, reached by walking past the mosquito-breeding experiment that is a midden of old tires.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
Faith, Chase and Quick sampled middens near Boomplaas Cave last September and received the first radiocarbon dates from the samples earlier this year.
—Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for midden
Noun
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Putting it into mop mode is as easy as filling up the reservoir in the dustbin with clean water and attaching the mop pad.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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Others, like a tablet controller or glasses-free stereoscopic 3D, are rightly remembered as half-baked gimmicks that belong in the dustbin of game industry history.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
3 Apr. 2025
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Their cattle then roam the yerba mate plantation, clear the weeds–which both feeds the cattle and eliminates the need for pesticides–and its manure helps enrich the soil.—
Andrew Watman,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Composted manure, for example, is often very high in nutrients and could potentially harm plants if overapplied.—
Anthony Reardon,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
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Decades ago, rangers and local volunteers transformed this area—once a junkyard—into a healthy 70-acre marsh with beavers, otters, turtles, and numerous avian species.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Apr. 2025
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Idea from dad’s junkyard Johnson spent part of his childhood in Milltown, Wis., where his father, also named Joe Johnson, owned a junkyard.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
9 Mar. 2025
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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
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Per Live Science, the case highlights the importance of raising awareness of the danger of using bat guano as a fertilizer.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
17 Dec. 2024
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Using safe, everyday chemicals—nothing exotic or dangerous—their technology recycles PET, polyester, and more, achieving a 65% lower CO₂ footprint compared to producing new plastics from fossil fuels while rescuing many tons of plastic from landfill.—
Marianne Lehnis,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Funeral director accused of throwing pets in landfill Through about 20 veterinary practices and businesses, Vereb collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from pet owners who were promised a private cremation for their pet, prosecutors said.—
Madeline Bartos,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2025
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The dung heap is being dismantled by a scrum of hermit crabs.—
Kevin Gepford,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Apr. 2025
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Ancient Egyptians also revered dung beetles because the rolling of the dung balls reminded them of the sun god rolling the sun across the sky, according to the Israel Museum.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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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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Its most abiding image involved a young woman lying on a dunghill and working herself to orgasm with the aid of a disembodied hand.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
1 Feb. 2018
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The rich sat on deck while the poor were squeezed in the hold below, with no place to relieve themselves, so excrement, vomit, and other wastes flowed down into the lower areas.—
Lauren Vuong,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2025
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Researchers fed the fish, and their excrement provided nutrients to the plants.—
Troy Aidan Sambajon,
The Christian Science Monitor,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Midden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midden. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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