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stool

noun

Definition of stool

as in feces

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Recent Examples of stool Expect to brush knees with whoever’s at the rattan stool next to you and make friends. — Maggie Turner, Air Mail, 25 July 2026 Key Takeaways Eating a high-fiber breakfast with fluids can help support a bowel movement by improving stool frequency and consistency. — Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 23 July 2026 Because cyclospora is difficult to culture, can't be grown in a lab and is commonly seen in low quantities in stool samples, the CDC instead relies on a different sequencing system that targets select genetic markers. — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 22 July 2026 In other clips, Wren danced backstage and helped bring a stool on stage as Legend performed. — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for stool

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Noun

There was one more poop piece on the floor by the pizza dough machine.

— David J. Neal July 24, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
My kids, at present, will only eat fruits with a peel, because then the poop can’t get in.

— Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 23 July 2026

Definition of poop

Noun

Realizing they are being had, Cubans respond to their government on the chat with emojis of excrement or the US flag.

— Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
The intense, carrion-like odor of the slime attracts insects, which then eat the slime and excrete it, with the spores later germinating in the excrement.

— Leah Hudson, Popular Science, 9 July 2026

Definition of excrement

Noun

Behind the cookline equipment, the rodent dung shared space with 20 dead roaches.

— David J. Neal July 24, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
When not elbow-deep in dino dung or outrunning raptors, Laura Dern's heartfelt performance in Jurassic Park shows why women really deserve to inherit the Earth — and all of the acting awards.

— Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026

Definition of dung

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Tszyu has never lost on home soil, and this is his middleweight debut in front of a Sydney crowd.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
His extradition shortly after leaving office marked a rare chance at justice for Hondurans, who feared his hold on the country's justice system would never allow a conviction on Honduran soil.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026

Definition of soil

Noun

But if a daisy grows out of the 2026 manure, then a future All-Star Game would be the perfect place to show it off.

— Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 15 July 2026
Excessive amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus from synthetic fertilizers and cow manure are then carried into the river by water and sediment runoff.

— Hannah Smith Updated July 8, Idaho Statesman, 8 July 2026

Definition of manure

Noun

Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, questioned the methodology, saying researchers collected scat only along roads and trails while excluding brushy areas where wolves may eat smaller prey.

— Scott Lebar. Story produced with AI assistance, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
Promising new studies are beginning to identify what cats eat by analyzing the DNA found in their stomachs and scat.

— Christopher A. Lepczyk, The Conversation, 8 July 2026

Definition of scat

Noun

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
My group first watched a video, which explained that the plant’s effluent would be released into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a thirty-mile-long waterway built in the late nineteenth century to rid the city of its ordure.

— Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2022

Definition of ordure

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