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Recent Examples of stool
The researchers collected stool samples, rectal swabs, rectal tissue, and blood samples before and after the intervention.
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New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
Seek medical care if diarrhea includes fever, chest pain, vomiting, or bloody stool.
—Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Health, 20 Sep. 2025
TikTok users were able to see the 19-week-old canine, named Odie, standing on a stool next to the garden fence.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Other symptoms of liver disease can include dark-colored urine, light or clay-colored stool, yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes (also known as jaundice), and swelling from fluid in the belly, arms and legs.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
Seek medical care if diarrhea includes fever, chest pain, vomiting, or bloody stool.
—Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Health, 20 Sep. 2025
TikTok users were able to see the 19-week-old canine, named Odie, standing on a stool next to the garden fence.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Other symptoms of liver disease can include dark-colored urine, light or clay-colored stool, yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes (also known as jaundice), and swelling from fluid in the belly, arms and legs.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
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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
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The Dave Matthews Band once infamously dumped 800 pounds of poop into it.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
18 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
Noun
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And like the wildebeest, bison dung packs a nutritional punch when deposited across the landscape.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
29 Aug. 2025
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Decades before Colorado’s best singers, dancers and actors graced the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in downtown Denver, workers pushed brooms across the stage to clean up elephant dung, rodeo sawdust, and blood spatters from boxing matches.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
28 Aug. 2025
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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
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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 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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Normies, apparently, refers to everyone who is not a bat-scat left-wing lunatic.—
Nolan Finley,
Twin Cities,
11 Sep. 2025
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On a recent trip, a scat deposit near the picnic table gave evidence of a nocturnal visitor.—
Don Sproul,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 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 Sep. 2025.
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