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 205's novel dustbin is enormous, taking up most of the robot's back half.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 23 June 2025
  • Other criteria evaluated were battery life and dustbin capacity.
    Toni Sutton, People.com, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Fertilizer and manure runoff across agricultural fields are often the culprit for the presence of nitrate in rivers, according to the EPA.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 16 June 2025
  • From a strictly horticultural perspective, nothing nourishes plants better than a compost made from chicken manure and chicken coop bedding.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And the costly orbiters, once out of film, went into the celestial junkyard.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • The last day of the shoot was by the bonfire, and all of that was put together from the junkyard.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • In Vancouver, where 3,000 homes are being demolished per year, that adds up quickly to a lot of landfill.
    Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • Hartford Courant This should be no surprise, given that only about 9% of the world’s plastic is actually recycled, and 70% ends up in landfills or in the environment.
    Andre Garron, Hartford Courant, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Ndebele art involves geometric motifs painted on the walls of houses using dung, limestone, red clays, soot, ash, and other natural pigments.
    Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • But be careful not to hit any of the rodents or the rodent dung.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.
    Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • 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
Noun
  • As The Athletic wanders around the Queen Elizabeth II Stand, the glances made are like towards excrement on a shoe.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • In fact, some seventeenth-century writers even used the word excrement to describe human hair.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025

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“Midden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midden. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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