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Recent Examples of stool
There are strict rules about chairs Patrons can bring chairs or stools inside the grounds but must be collapsible with no arms.
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Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
There were egg chairs and brightly colored leather stools that wouldn’t look out of place in a tech startup or a very cool daycare center.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Lori Tremmel Freeman, chief executive officer of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said that local, state and federal health departments play equally important but different roles in supporting public health, like the legs on a stool.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
Constipation is a digestive symptom that makes passing your stool difficult or painful.
—Cristina Mutchler, Health, 8 Apr. 2025
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Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
There were egg chairs and brightly colored leather stools that wouldn’t look out of place in a tech startup or a very cool daycare center.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Lori Tremmel Freeman, chief executive officer of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said that local, state and federal health departments play equally important but different roles in supporting public health, like the legs on a stool.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
Constipation is a digestive symptom that makes passing your stool difficult or painful.
—Cristina Mutchler, Health, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
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And no one can assure that their poop is safe to eat.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Another included several bags for picking up the poop.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The rich sat on deck while the poor were squeezed in the hold below, with no place to relieve themselves, so excrement, vomit, and other wastes flowed down into the lower areas.—
Lauren Vuong,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2025
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Researchers fed the fish, and their excrement provided nutrients to the plants.—
Troy Aidan Sambajon,
The Christian Science Monitor,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Ancient Egyptians also revered dung beetles because the rolling of the dung balls reminded them of the sun god rolling the sun across the sky, according to the Israel Museum.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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Living in the wood economy means relying on wood, dung, and other basic bioenergy.—
Ted Nordhaus,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Aug. 2016
Noun
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To minimize outdoor pollution during poor air quality, officials urged people to carpool; telecommute; reduce trips or take public transportation; slow down when driving on dirt roads; and stabilize loose soils.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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Teams will eventually undertake soil studies and drone-based, multispectral ground sensing to measure potential improvements to soil quality and carbon capture capacity on farmland that uses these techniques.—
Robin Roenker,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 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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These tasks include milking, feeding and manure management.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Only use manure from livestock and to not add pet waste or human manure to standard composting systems.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Blige also connected jazz (scat singing, riffing on a phrase, improvising wordless lines), gospel (testifying akin to a preacher delivering a sermon) and hip hop traditions.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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Despite recent concerns about an increase in cat consumption, the scientists found feline remnants in only about 4.5 percent of the scat samples.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
22 Jan. 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 2 May. 2025.
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