as in truck
waste material (such as human urine and feces) that is carried away from homes and other buildings in a system of pipes
raw sewage
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Recent Examples of sewage
Gaza’s most dire conditions — the lack of food and medicine, continuing Israeli attacks, destroyed hospitals, schools and residential buildings, homelessness and overcrowding — now include rodents, climbing temperatures and open-air sewage.
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Jeremy Mikula, NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026
After decades of rhetoric on the Tijuana sewage fiasco, nothing has been accomplished.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
The roughly $16 million effort aims to reduce incidents where heavy rain causes raw sewage — including fecal matter — to overflow into local creeks and streams.
—Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
The company also points out the land sits next to a tractor-trailer depot already approved by Miami-Dade on land that’s also outside the UDB and that Miami-Dade once seriously considered building a sewage-treatment plant on the site before that project fizzled years ago.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
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Jeremy Mikula, NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026
After decades of rhetoric on the Tijuana sewage fiasco, nothing has been accomplished.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
The roughly $16 million effort aims to reduce incidents where heavy rain causes raw sewage — including fecal matter — to overflow into local creeks and streams.
—Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
The company also points out the land sits next to a tractor-trailer depot already approved by Miami-Dade on land that’s also outside the UDB and that Miami-Dade once seriously considered building a sewage-treatment plant on the site before that project fizzled years ago.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sewage
Noun
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The occasional roars of delivery trucks and motorcycles that used our alleys to get around the traffic of the main roads, to cut through the city.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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These include blending hydrogen with natural gas for use in pipelines, powering heavy-duty trucks, and using hydrogen in industrial boilers.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Bin 23 Air Jordan 3 comes in a box printed with a woodgrain graphic alongside dust bags and wooden shoe trees.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
3 May 2026
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In addition, strong winds over desert areas could result in briefly lowered visibilities to well under a mile at times in blowing dust or blowing sand.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
3 May 2026
Noun
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The old refuse was collected into a single pile in the 1950s and newer operations continued to accumulate waste there, per DRMS.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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But some of that refuse, the ghost recalls, found a second life in the hands of a woman named Cara.—
Omari Weekes,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Sewage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sewage. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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