midden

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Recent Examples of midden Known to be pack rats, Allegheny woodrats will store large piles of food, called middens, in their dens. Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 Oct. 2025 In East Chisenbury, sheep dominated the feast, and while the midden contained hundreds of thousands of animals, research showed they were, in contrast, locally sourced. Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025 This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby. 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 See All Example Sentences for midden
Recent Examples of Synonyms for midden
Noun
  • Contributor Terri Williams praises its 50-minute run-time; tangle-free, five-stage filtration system; and dustbin disposal that deploys at the touch of a button.
    Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2025
  • When you’re done, simply pop open the large dustbin and empty debris directly into the trash—no tugging out tangled hair or gunk required.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Moreover, the purification and refining process works with many types of biowaste, notably food, sewage sludge, algal bloom, swine manure, and agricultural residue.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Her year-round process includes cleaning up the old vines, planting cover crops to protect the soil, running tests and spreading manure to prepare the patch for spring.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So many things, dropped and lost and mislaid, twinkling all over the place like a museum/ junkyard.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The Accent was set on fire and later taken to a junkyard, where it was recovered by authorities, Toczylowski said.
    Doha Madani, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Guano Point viewpoint is named for miners who tried to remove nitrogen-rich bat guano from a nearby cave discovered in 1930.
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 9 Nov. 2025
  • He was jolted out of his reverie by a whiff of guano in the breeze.
    Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The new approach offers a dual solution that simultaneously conserves agricultural resources and produces a biodegradable alternative to address landfill waste.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
  • According to the Global Fashion Agenda, that is the equivalent of a garbage truck full of clothing being incinerated or sent to a landfill every second.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.
    Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 21 Nov. 2025.

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