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Recent Examples of stool
Participants self-reported their mental health symptoms and soda intake, and researchers analyzed stool samples to assess their gut bacteria.
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Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
While the restaurant has a tiny upstairs salon, the best way to enjoy Borsam's lahmacun is perched on a stool inside or outside by a window, watching the vibrant foot traffic of the neighborhoods pass by.
—Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
But analysts have warned in recent months that this is a one-legged stool – and AI companies’ high valuations can’t support the market forever.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Constipation treatment typically involves laxatives, stool softeners, water enemas, or bulking agents, like psyllium.
—Erica Sweeney, EverydayHealth.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
While the restaurant has a tiny upstairs salon, the best way to enjoy Borsam's lahmacun is perched on a stool inside or outside by a window, watching the vibrant foot traffic of the neighborhoods pass by.
—Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
But analysts have warned in recent months that this is a one-legged stool – and AI companies’ high valuations can’t support the market forever.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Constipation treatment typically involves laxatives, stool softeners, water enemas, or bulking agents, like psyllium.
—Erica Sweeney, EverydayHealth.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
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The tax would cover the costs of cleaning up dog poop and other related public-space maintenance.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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No bugs in rice, but rodent poop on seasoning containers in a kitchen storage room (over 30 droppings), next to a kitchen bread mixer (over 10 droppings), on the kitchen floor (over 10), and on top of sanitizer buckers under the kitchen dishwasher (over six).—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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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
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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
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This World Cup, held on home soil, represents both a golden opportunity and a defining moment for Mexican football.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The team excavated several key places on the site, studied cores of soil and conducted an additional LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, survey of the area.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
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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
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If not, then the scat might be from neighborhood dogs.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
27 Oct. 2025
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Teig came upon piles of green scat, a telltale sign that an animal was close by.—
Devon O’Neil,
Outside,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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 9 Nov. 2025.
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