stool

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Recent Examples of stool If the weather is good, grab a stool outside and perch at one of the tables made from wine barrels. Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2024 The pre- and post-ceremony gathering space includes an outdoor shower area, a seating area with stools made by local artisans that are inspired by the design of traditional Mayan chairs, as well as a clawfoot tub that can be filled as a cold plunge for after the ceremony upon request. Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024 The third leg of that stool, leisure and hospitality, however, lost 4,000 jobs. Alicia Wallace, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024 This gel adds bulk and softness to your stool, helping move things along and making bowel movements easier and more regular. Shushy Rita Setrakian Ms, Rd, Verywell Health, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stool 
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Noun
  • Watch this 💩 Art with a message: Someone placed a bronze replica of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk — topped with a giant pile of poop — near the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
    Daniel Wine, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Elevate her dog walks and hikes with this chic Springer set, which includes a hands-free leash that attaches to a luxe neoprene belt bag, perfect for stashing dog treats, poop bags, her wallet, keys, and phone.
    Elizabeth Mitchell Kadar, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • This is by design; his sometime advisor Steve Bannon advocated flooding the zone with, well, excrement, so that media couldn’t keep up.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Director Shawn Levy stages the cartoonish violence with less verve than David Leitch’s in Deadpool 2, which featured the franchise’s paradigmatic transition — from the close-up of a sphincter to a human eye — making the point that this is all excrement.
    Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2024
Noun
  • To paint a clearer picture of the park’s past, researchers from multiple universities analyzed the steroids present in animal dung — unearthed from lake sediments that range from around 238 B.C. to the present day.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Homes are made of mud and dung, sandals are made of recycled tires, and there are taboos against cutting down live trees and eating wildlife.
    Christine Ro, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Over four decades later, new soil samples taken from the same regions still indicated a better fungi and bacteria presence than the areas that did not host gophers.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
  • With ongoing geopolitical tensions and the conflict in Ukraine fueling these detentions, the future for those arrested on Russian soil appears increasingly uncertain.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • For millennia, people collected these precious substances—often in the wee hours, giving rise to the term night soil—and used them to grow food.
    Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
Noun
  • The rule of law The Takei family spent the first night after their arrest squeezed into a horse stall at a local racetrack, with flies buzzing overhead, overwhelmed by the stench of horse manure.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Ten years ago, in 2014, the Yale School for the Environment published a study that showed that biochar made from plant fodder and/or even chicken manure could be used to remove mercury from power plant emissions and clean polluted soil.
    Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • According to the Department of Environment and Water, scat is wild animal poo.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Groundhog scat, on the other hand, is usually a bit bigger and isn’t as uniform in size.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2024
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
  • Even a seemingly natural savannah, the African grasslands in the Mara-Serengeti, has benefited from the healing powers of animal ordure, produced by the livestock of human herders thousands of years ago.
    Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2018

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“Stool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stool. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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