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Recent Examples of midden
This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.
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Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
This behavior could help explain why historical Florida manatee populations that were hunted by humans are absent from middens and rarely mentioned in historical accounts.
—Beth Brady, Sun Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2025
Also plugging into the idea of tourism as education, marine biologist Cormac McGinley runs leave-no-trace fossil discovery walks and tours of the Burren’s lunar-like landscape, which take in sea caves, ancient middens, and color-popping anemones.
—Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2024
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.
—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
This behavior could help explain why historical Florida manatee populations that were hunted by humans are absent from middens and rarely mentioned in historical accounts.
—Beth Brady, Sun Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2025
Also plugging into the idea of tourism as education, marine biologist Cormac McGinley runs leave-no-trace fossil discovery walks and tours of the Burren’s lunar-like landscape, which take in sea caves, ancient middens, and color-popping anemones.
—Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2024
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.
—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for midden
Noun
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Sweep up anything that falls on the floor in your porch and throw it in the dustbin.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
27 Sep. 2025
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Emptying the dustbin was hassle-free, with clear arrow stickers showing exactly where to unlatch.—
Toni Sutton,
PEOPLE,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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It can also be spread indirectly through manure, equipment, vehicles, egg flats, crates, clothing and shoes, water and, potentially, feed.—
Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
17 Oct. 2025
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One day, his dad, Brian (Palin), shares an old recipe involving rainwater, horse manure and alchemy to create Homunculi – magical prophesying spirits that can predict the future.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In the exclusive trailer above, junkyard baron Norman Henry (Mandy Patinkin) and his wife Marian (Janet McTeer) sit down to dinner for two in their country home.—
Breanne L. Heldman,
PEOPLE,
9 Oct. 2025
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But what seems like a windfall quickly spirals into a chain of betrayal, junkyard standoffs and escalating violence.—
Emiliano De Pablos,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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If excluding the bats is a DIY job, clean up the roosting area afterwards so that guano doesn’t attract other pests such as cockroaches and flies.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
21 Oct. 2025
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All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Much of it is dumped in landfills, leaching toxic chemicals into the environment.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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In another climate change mitigation push, the company aims to reach zero landfill waste for its Naia spinning production in the United States by 2030.—
Sarah Jones,
Sourcing Journal,
20 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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In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.—
Alex Beam,
BostonGlobe.com,
2 May 2018
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
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“Midden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midden. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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