midden

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Recent Examples of midden 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 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 See All Example Sentences for midden
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Noun
  • The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The roomy dustbin didn’t need constant emptying, and the crevice tool came in clutch for picking up crumbs between couch cushions and from the tight corners of car seats.
    Toni Sutton, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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
  • In Marietta, with meager funds, Marcus Brachman started a junkyard.
    Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Totaled cars are typically sold at a salvage auction to junkyards and vehicle rebuilders.
    Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • According to the study, the guano’s byproducts accelerated the formation of clouds by 10,000 times.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 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
Noun
  • Archaeologists also found a vessel likely used for landfill retention, plus another one that remains unidentified.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Additionally, aluminum doesn't decompose in landfills, contributing to long-term environmental pollution.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 31 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
  • In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.
    Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
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

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“Midden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midden. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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