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Recent Examples of stool
Staycation Woven Counter Height Stool This counter stool blends textures for a unique yet timeless look.
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Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 12 June 2025
Inflammation in this part of the body can lead to abdominal pain and cramping, fatigue, loss of appetite, diarrhea, blood in the stool, nausea and an urgent need to go to the bathroom.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 June 2025
Those signs of soft stools that often look like tan cow feces, insatiable appetite accompanied by weight loss, and negative tests for parasites, matched with no resolution using various medications and diets.
—Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 1 June 2025
Severe infections can also include aches, headaches, elevated fever, lethargy, rashes, and blood in the urine or stool.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 8 June 2025
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Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 12 June 2025
Inflammation in this part of the body can lead to abdominal pain and cramping, fatigue, loss of appetite, diarrhea, blood in the stool, nausea and an urgent need to go to the bathroom.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 June 2025
Those signs of soft stools that often look like tan cow feces, insatiable appetite accompanied by weight loss, and negative tests for parasites, matched with no resolution using various medications and diets.
—Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 1 June 2025
Severe infections can also include aches, headaches, elevated fever, lethargy, rashes, and blood in the urine or stool.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 8 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
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No surprise, then, that after Surfside asked for money, the poop left the building and the B.S. walked right in — someone called Tallahassee.—
Pat Beall,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 June 2025
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This results in small, hard, usually black or brownish pellets of poop.—
Avery Hurt,
Discover Magazine,
14 June 2025
Noun
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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
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In fact, some seventeenth-century writers even used the word excrement to describe human hair.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
Noun
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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
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But be careful not to hit any of the rodents or the rodent dung.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
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Growing requirements will vary by species, but most appreciate partial to full shade and rich, moist soil. Bring one of the easiest house plants around to the outdoors.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
29 June 2025
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Potted plants will quickly use up all the water that can be stored in the small amount of soil a pot can hold.—
Beth Botts,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2025
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This strategy became necessary after an errant tomato plant sprouted from a visitor's night soil back in the 1960s.—
Amy Brady,
Scientific American,
17 Oct. 2023
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The night soil temperatures are not ideal to put them out yet.—
oregonlive,
oregonlive,
1 May 2021
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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
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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
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Clad in survival suits and headlamps, Jennifer Sevigny and Amanda Summers are heading back from a harbor seal gathering in Port Susan Bay with dry bags full of seal scat.—
Cheryl Katz,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
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The team started by looking for the tell-tale signs of snow leopards–footprints, scat, and scratch marks.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
7 May 2025
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The script was based on the 1979 French play and subsequent 1982 film Le père Noël est une ordure (Santa Claus Is a Stinker).—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
21 Dec. 2024
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On the face of it, packing the ordure of millions into open-air mounds is a terrible approach to a more livable planet, particularly in a part of the world where scavengers don’t comb through them for every salable scrap.—
Curbed,
Curbed,
12 Aug. 2022
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“Stool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stool. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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