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Recent Examples of stool
The Native campers do not come with a ladder but should be easy enough to high-step into or access via small step ladder, stool, or even a sturdy cargo box or cooler.
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New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2025
The American Cancer Society recommends that adults aged 45 and up get regular colon cancer screenings, either stool analyses or colonoscopies.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
The virus is present in stool as well, so changing diapers or helping a sick child in the bathroom can lead to infection if hands aren’t washed thoroughly.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Adding to the magic was a small chocolate stool.
—Aleksandra Crapanzano, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
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New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2025
The American Cancer Society recommends that adults aged 45 and up get regular colon cancer screenings, either stool analyses or colonoscopies.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
The virus is present in stool as well, so changing diapers or helping a sick child in the bathroom can lead to infection if hands aren’t washed thoroughly.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Adding to the magic was a small chocolate stool.
—Aleksandra Crapanzano, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
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More than 15 poops were under a counter by the coffee station.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
19 Dec. 2025
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This means that coyotes are likely performing some ecological roles that wolves never did, such as dispersing fruit seeds in their poop and suppressing populations of smaller predators.—
Alex Jensen,
The Conversation,
18 Dec. 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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Climate and soil conditions differ in each region, and each protectorate has its own indigenous crops.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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Fundamentally, sending in our own military to make the arrest on foreign soil without the consent of the other country would still violate international law and the sovereignty of Venezuela.—
Elie Mystal,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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 Jan. 2026.
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