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Recent Examples of stool
Matt Maclean, 49, was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer after noticing blood in his stool in October 2020.
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Khloe Quill, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2025
Robbie Hornik, 28, who owns about 87 food stools, said HomeGoods stores debut new stools seasonally and usually on the West Coast first.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
The space also includes an Ellison Studios swivel chair and Chromeo armchair, a Soho Home mirror, French milking stool, Jacques Brun photograph, Rugvista Handloom Frame wool rug, and Coordinates Floor Design by Michael Anastassiades floor lamp.
—Kathryn Romeyn, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2025
On the right, a long bar with its own burgundy leather stools with backs looks out on the dining room.
—Susan Stapleton, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
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Khloe Quill, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2025
Robbie Hornik, 28, who owns about 87 food stools, said HomeGoods stores debut new stools seasonally and usually on the West Coast first.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
The space also includes an Ellison Studios swivel chair and Chromeo armchair, a Soho Home mirror, French milking stool, Jacques Brun photograph, Rugvista Handloom Frame wool rug, and Coordinates Floor Design by Michael Anastassiades floor lamp.
—Kathryn Romeyn, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2025
On the right, a long bar with its own burgundy leather stools with backs looks out on the dining room.
—Susan Stapleton, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
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Who would think that fermenting a foul-smelling pile of poop could generate a valuable stream of natural gas?—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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The poop, or guano, of infected birds is teeming with viruses.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
The Mercury News,
27 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The zoo works with a third-party company to dispose of all excrement, transforming it into compost.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
10 Feb. 2025
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Some could have come from wild bird excrement that enters storm drains, for example.—
Evan Bush,
NBC News,
22 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Here’s some of what the inspector found: About nine pieces of rodent dung in the lobby behind the drink station counter.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
28 Jan. 2025
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Hundreds of barefoot pilgrims undertook a parikrama one morning, picking around heaps of cow dung dotting the road.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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This step-by-step guide explains how to propagate hoya plants by rooting cuttings in water or layering in soil.—
Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Feb. 2025
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Rent a small car or Vespa to zip around the narrow roads, discovering vineyards with volcanic soil, prehistoric villages, and underwater caves along the way.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 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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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
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Organic additions of rich soil and manures decompose rapidly and soon the soil is mainly sand again.—
Tom MacCubbin,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2025
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Organic fertilizers are derived from plant or animal products such as manure, bone and blood meals, composted plant material, or fish meal.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Second, there was a lot of bear scat all around me, maybe 25 different heaps in a 30-foot circle around the lodge’s front door.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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In the living room, Fadden found bear scat, a foot in diameter.—
Paige Williams,
The New Yorker,
25 Nov. 2024
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 26 Feb. 2025.
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