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Recent Examples of stool
There are risks to transplanting another person’s stool, including a small but real chance of transferring harmful pathogens.
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Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
By sitting on a rotating stool with weights in their outstretched hands, students emulate a figure skater by pulling their arms inward and spinning much faster as their mass moves closer to their axis of rotation.
—Amy Pope, The Conversation, 2 Feb. 2026
The most common symptoms of colorectal cancer include persistent changes in bowel habits, unfinished bowel habits, rectal bleeding or blood in stool, abdominal pain or discomfort, unexplained weight loss and fatigue.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2026
Anna asks as her mother sits in the bathtub on a stool shampooing her daughter’s hair.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 31 Jan. 2026
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Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
By sitting on a rotating stool with weights in their outstretched hands, students emulate a figure skater by pulling their arms inward and spinning much faster as their mass moves closer to their axis of rotation.
—Amy Pope, The Conversation, 2 Feb. 2026
The most common symptoms of colorectal cancer include persistent changes in bowel habits, unfinished bowel habits, rectal bleeding or blood in stool, abdominal pain or discomfort, unexplained weight loss and fatigue.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2026
Anna asks as her mother sits in the bathtub on a stool shampooing her daughter’s hair.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 31 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
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Flies and roach poop caused a mall food court chain’s Kendall location to fail inspection last week, a week after its Hialeah location also flopped inspection.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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This helps draw water into poop, keeping it soft and easy to pass.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
9 Feb. 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
Noun
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Snow can protect plants and soils from deep freezes and affect wildlife migration, hibernation and survival.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
15 Feb. 2026
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Tiny natural organisms will quickly turn organic waste into the most nutritious soil additive available.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
15 Feb. 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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The Winneshiek County dairy with about 330 head of dairy cattle has been cited for two previous fish kill incidents, where manure leaked from the operation into a tributary of Dry Run Creek.—
Cami Koons,
Iowa Capital Dispatch,
10 Feb. 2026
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Keep the plant three or more feet from the home and prepare the ground with compost, peat moss or manure.—
Tom Macklin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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For the last decade, wildlife biologists have been using remote cameras and scat surveys to track the movements of the fox in the southern Sierra.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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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
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 18 Feb. 2026.
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