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Recent Examples of stool
The defendant got into some sort of argument with Velasquez, who was sitting on a stool outside of the store, before the deadly conflict.
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City News Service, Oc Register, 22 Jan. 2026
In one corner is an animator’s drawing desk with a schedule, maquettes of the Lilo and Stitch characters, lamp and stool.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2026
Luckily for fans, the counter is often filled with solo diners who slurp fast, opening up a stool for another diner.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
Soluble fiber helps hydrate and add bulk to the stool, which can help prevent and treat constipation.
—Anthea Levi, Health, 16 Jan. 2026
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City News Service, Oc Register, 22 Jan. 2026
In one corner is an animator’s drawing desk with a schedule, maquettes of the Lilo and Stitch characters, lamp and stool.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2026
Luckily for fans, the counter is often filled with solo diners who slurp fast, opening up a stool for another diner.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
Soluble fiber helps hydrate and add bulk to the stool, which can help prevent and treat constipation.
—Anthea Levi, Health, 16 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
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After saying his goodbyes, Dunk picks up Arlan’s sword in the shining sun and has a hero moment worthy of Jon Snow or Jaime Lannister — but then gets a queasy stomach and explosively poops behind a tree.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
19 Jan. 2026
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Since June, Mi SELA LGBTQ+ has been climbing ladders to clean dozens of poop bags off their awning.—
Lesley Marin,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
Noun
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By examining the whales' excrement, the scientists who work with Eba can try to identify ways for the orcas to rebound.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
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The disposal of human excrement is not a new issue.—
NPR,
NPR,
19 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The streets are begrimed by factory smoke, fecund with horse dung and lit by lanterns.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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These rodents left 15 pieces of dung on top of the dishwasher.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
19 Dec. 2025
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These soils are low in nutrients, drain quickly but retain small reserves of moisture, and warm rapidly in sunlight before releasing heat at night.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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According to AccuWeather, frost quakes, also sometimes called icequakes, are seismic events caused by a sudden cracking action in frozen soil or rock saturated with water or ice.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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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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The smell of dirt, hay and horse manure permeated the building.—
Chris Torres,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Jan. 2026
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Tetanus bacteria live in soil and manure.—
Mustafa Fattah,
NBC news,
24 Dec. 2025
Noun
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More recent studies of urban coyote scat indicate that in most cities the percentage of trash, pet food, and other human food actually comes in at only about 2 percent.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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With just a pea-size glob of scat, biologists can genetically decode which individual whale produced the sample.—
Kelso Harper,
Scientific American,
16 Dec. 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 29 Jan. 2026.
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