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Recent Examples of night soil
This strategy became necessary after an errant tomato plant sprouted from a visitor's night soil back in the 1960s.
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Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
The night soil temperatures are not ideal to put them out yet.
—oregonlive, 1 May 2021
For millennia, people collected these precious substances—often in the wee hours, giving rise to the term night soil—and used them to grow food.
—Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
The night soil temperatures are not ideal to put them out yet.
—oregonlive, 1 May 2021
For millennia, people collected these precious substances—often in the wee hours, giving rise to the term night soil—and used them to grow food.
—Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for night soil
Noun
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Have soil that needs improvement on multiple fronts?—
Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 Sep. 2025
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Multispectral sensors designed to detect subtle soil signatures, rovers carrying mobile cameras and experiments, and plans to piggyback scientific payloads on commercial landers are all part of near-term efforts to move from models and samples toward a working mining plan.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Esteller and the research team took samples from Branyas’ blood, saliva, urine and stool before examining her genome and comparing it with those belonging to 75 other Iberian women.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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Researchers examined her blood, saliva, urine and stool to determine what factors contributed to her long life.—
Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The state could look at banning the application of fertilizer or manure in areas of the state where the groundwater is close to the surface, or porous rock makes the groundwater ripe for contamination, advocates have suggested.—
Laura Schulte,
jsonline.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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After amending your soil with compost or aged manure before planting, these heavy-feeding plants need an additional side-dressing with a balanced organic fertilizer when their leafy shoots emerge in spring.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Burning Man poop will help gardens grow elsewhere.—
Dennis Hinkamp,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
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And playing with my daughter, asking her how her day went and not having to clean up any dog poop.—
Carly Thomas,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Dark spots about the size of an asterisk which are bed bug excrement and may bleed on fabric like a marker.—
Katie Nixon,
Nashville Tennessean,
23 Sep. 2025
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Roach excrement and roach corpses on walls and employees not knowing when or how to wash their hands were among the reasons a popular West Miami-Dade Japanese restaurant failed inspection Wednesday.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Night soil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/night%20soil. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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