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Recent Examples of stool
Mi-Mo resembles a lamp affixed to a stool and is, in fact, a walking, waving robot.
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Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 10 Jan. 2025
Douglas Corner Counter-Height Stool Upgrade your kitchen with new counter-height stools like this charming, upholstered style.
—Ali Faccenda, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2025
Burning diarrhea refers to loose or watery stools that cause a painful burning sensation.
—Cristina Mutchler, Health, 5 Jan. 2025
The 6,700-square-foot space feels like an exclusive supper club, anchored by a vast oval bar surrounded by stools padded with blue leather.
—Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 10 Jan. 2025
Douglas Corner Counter-Height Stool Upgrade your kitchen with new counter-height stools like this charming, upholstered style.
—Ali Faccenda, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2025
Burning diarrhea refers to loose or watery stools that cause a painful burning sensation.
—Cristina Mutchler, Health, 5 Jan. 2025
The 6,700-square-foot space feels like an exclusive supper club, anchored by a vast oval bar surrounded by stools padded with blue leather.
—Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
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To visualize how little exposure that entails, consider that one gram of poop (picture a quarter teaspoon) from a person with norovirus can include billions of viral particles.Erica Sloan, SELF, 14 Jan. 2025
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Manure management systems in which the manure is stacked in outdoor mounds and exposed to oxygen — as opposed to the poop lagoon systems used by most commercial dairies — largely avoid releasing methane.Kenny Torrella, Vox, 13 Jan. 2025
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Her mother didn't want Dutt to be raised with the stigma of being known as a Dalit of the Bhangi sub-caste, whose people were long compelled to remove excrement from latrine pits.Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
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The poop was exhaustively analyzed by a research team of more than a dozen scientists using advanced techniques, and even a synchrotron particle accelerator, to probe each piece of excrement down to the molecular level.Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024
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With antivenom hard to find in rural areas, some snakebite victims pay traditional healers with a chicken or a small goat to apply herbs, bones and even dung.Brian Otieno, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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In turn, their dung may have fertilized the growth of certain types of algae in the lake and thereby altered the local ecosystem.Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
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Rocks also contribute to soil stability and protect delicate ecosystems.Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2025
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June • For camellia, citrus, gardenia, grape and other plants adapted to acidic soil: If leaves are yellowing (chlorotic) between green veins, plants may benefit from foliar or soil application of iron and zinc chelate and mulching.The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
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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
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And technologies may need to be combined–for example, feed additives and vaccines–as well as integrated with manure management and other ways to reduce climate emissions in livestock operations.Marianne Krasny, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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That’s because cow manure doesn’t inherently contain methane.Kenny Torrella, Vox, 13 Jan. 2025
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Also, wolf scat has been found containing plastic and other material that could only have come from garbage cans and city dumps.Al Wolter, Outdoor Life, 10 Jan. 2025
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The sophomore scat back was spotted working out with trainers off to the side of Thursday's practice before the team gave the official designation.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
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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 21 Jan. 2025.
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