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Recent Examples of stool
Here's where to pull up a stool for a pint and some fresh air.
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Kate Bernot, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
Diagnosis and treatment The bacterial infection is diagnosed by testing cultures obtained from stool, wounds or blood, according to health officials.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
But the fact that the positive changes also lined up with training intensity, stool transit time, and lactate metabolism suggests that exercise itself – not just what was consumed – may directly influence how the gut community functions.
—New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2025
Key Takeaways Psyllium husk is almost entirely soluble fiber, which may soften stool and help with bowel regularity.
—Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 22 Aug. 2025
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Kate Bernot, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
Diagnosis and treatment The bacterial infection is diagnosed by testing cultures obtained from stool, wounds or blood, according to health officials.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
But the fact that the positive changes also lined up with training intensity, stool transit time, and lactate metabolism suggests that exercise itself – not just what was consumed – may directly influence how the gut community functions.
—New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2025
Key Takeaways Psyllium husk is almost entirely soluble fiber, which may soften stool and help with bowel regularity.
—Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
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One reader emailed us to emphatically declare Andrew the worst, citing its homeless population, garbage and bird poop.—
Isabelle Friedman,
Boston Herald,
31 Aug. 2025
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Want the poop on this pathetic history?—
Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Deputies who responded to the scene said the home was covered in trash and smelled of human excrement.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Human excrement can contain a wide range of parasites, bacteria, and viruses that can contaminate bodies of water, causing harm not only to humans but also to flora and fauna.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
27 Aug. 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
Noun
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Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
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Israel has been engaged in a war with Gaza since a deadly 2023 terrorist attack on Israeli soil, which has seen ballistic missiles and rockets fired at the country.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
3 Sep. 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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How that ratio of truth to horse manure will manifest in the shenanigans of season two is anyone’s guess.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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Regulation possible moving forward While horseback riding companies and scientists may not agree on how harmful horse manure is, both sides see a possibility for compromise on regulation.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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However, two more tests on the scat are needed for final confirmation from the Indonesian government.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
People.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Schaffer also details how the Super Mario Bros. theme was once part of Anderson's jazz scat scene.—
Staff Author,
EW.com,
9 Aug. 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 Sep. 2025.
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