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Recent Examples of stool
In between Biennale exhibits, here is where to eat, drink, and pull up a stool, by sestiere, the six historic districts that divide the city.
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Jenn Rice, Vogue, 20 May 2026
Weather-resistant thanks to a spillproof glaze, this ceramic garden stool adds a soft pattern and pop of blue to the patio.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 May 2026
Flushing the colon may release stool that hasn’t been cleared from your intestines, and may offer temporary relief from bloating or constipation for healthy people, Asamoah says.
—Erica Sweeney, Time, 11 May 2026
Princess Cruises has increased cleaning and disinfection, collected stool samples for testing and consulted with the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program, according to the CDC.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 9 May 2026
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Jenn Rice, Vogue, 20 May 2026
Weather-resistant thanks to a spillproof glaze, this ceramic garden stool adds a soft pattern and pop of blue to the patio.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 May 2026
Flushing the colon may release stool that hasn’t been cleared from your intestines, and may offer temporary relief from bloating or constipation for healthy people, Asamoah says.
—Erica Sweeney, Time, 11 May 2026
Princess Cruises has increased cleaning and disinfection, collected stool samples for testing and consulted with the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program, according to the CDC.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 9 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
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Each spring since then, the National Park Service scrubs out a year’s worth of goose poop and other debris to keep the pool clean and the algae away.—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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Robbie spoke with the naturalist, who pulled bottles of krill and whale poop from his pockets.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
17 May 2026
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If, for David Lynch, ideas are like fish in a river, then for Danish provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn, those ideas are like chunks of excrement in an exploded sewage pipe.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
19 May 2026
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Hantavirus is contracted through inhalation or contact with rodent excrement or saliva.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
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To help the herd accept the calf after his time away, rescuers coated him in fresh elephant dung to mask any unfamiliar scents.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
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Release of dung increases soil organic carbon and helps build soil structure that improves water filtration and soil aeration.—
Paige Stein,
Hartford Courant,
4 May 2026
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Insufficient Watering Tomatoes require constant moisture rather than fluctuating periods of wet and dry soil.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 May 2026
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The scientific one — understanding how nitrogenase, tucked inside an ordinary soil bacterium, accomplishes what the Haber-Bosch process requires an industrial furnace to do — remained open.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 May 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
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At the same time, rice farmers are using more fertilizers and organic amendments, such as straw and manure, planting more productive rice varieties and growing the plants closer together.—
Hanqin Tian,
Fortune,
25 May 2026
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To reduce the amount of digging, one option is to apply a few inches of compost or aged manure over your in-ground garden, then work it into the top few inches of the soil.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 May 2026
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The performing community challenged that notion, tracing the scat-singing and gesticulations to earlier artists including Black jazz performer Baby Esther Jones and cabaret entertainer Florence Mills.—
Alexandra Del Rosario,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
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These elements, especially improvisation, can be expressed vocally too, as in scat.—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
15 May 2026
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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 31 May. 2026.
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