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Recent Examples of stool
Some standouts from the sale include this hardtop gazebo that can cover an entire dining area as well as these outdoor stools that are great for furnishing a bar or high-top table.
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Rachel Trujillo, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2025
Both support digestion, but insoluble fiber especially helps bulk stool and prevent constipation.12 Whole grains, wheat bran, and vegetables are good sources of insoluble fiber.3
People who don’t eat enough fiber may experience occasional constipation.
—Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 29 May 2025
Fishermen sit on the harbor on stools, trimming ropes with knives; nets are draped over crates like tulle veils spilling onto the ground.
—Lily Radziemski, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Check out more great stools below that might be the perfect accessibility aid for you.
—Alice Bennett, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2025
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Rachel Trujillo, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2025
Both support digestion, but insoluble fiber especially helps bulk stool and prevent constipation.12 Whole grains, wheat bran, and vegetables are good sources of insoluble fiber.3
People who don’t eat enough fiber may experience occasional constipation.
—Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 29 May 2025
Fishermen sit on the harbor on stools, trimming ropes with knives; nets are draped over crates like tulle veils spilling onto the ground.
—Lily Radziemski, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Check out more great stools below that might be the perfect accessibility aid for you.
—Alice Bennett, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
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Winning a golf tournament for $4 million and your wife handing you a baby with a poop stain square in the middle of his back is peak dad life.—
Kendall Capps,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 June 2025
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One researcher said his studies identified about 100,000 fecal (poop) bacteria per cup of bathwater.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
2 June 2025
Noun
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Nutrients can come in different forms, including over-fertilizing your garden or lawn or excrement from fish.—
Lauren David,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Apr. 2025
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Mount Everest climbers now have to take their poop away with them, as human excrement has become a big problem on the world’s highest peak.—
CNN,
The Mercury News,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Ndebele art involves geometric motifs painted on the walls of houses using dung, limestone, red clays, soot, ash, and other natural pigments.—
Percy Zvomuya,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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But be careful not to hit any of the rodents or the rodent dung.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
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The world of American soccer has a rare, priceless opportunity arriving a year from now: the 2026 FIFA World Cup, to be hosted largely on U.S. soil.—
Becky Sullivan,
NPR,
17 June 2025
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After the piñas are added, the pit is blanketed with leaves from the agave plant and natural fibers, then covered with soil.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
17 June 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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The night soil temperatures are not ideal to put them out yet.—
oregonlive,
oregonlive,
1 May 2021
Noun
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Fertilizer and manure runoff across agricultural fields are often the culprit for the presence of nitrate in rivers, according to the EPA.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
16 June 2025
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From a strictly horticultural perspective, nothing nourishes plants better than a compost made from chicken manure and chicken coop bedding.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Clad in survival suits and headlamps, Jennifer Sevigny and Amanda Summers are heading back from a harbor seal gathering in Port Susan Bay with dry bags full of seal scat.—
Cheryl Katz,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
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The team started by looking for the tell-tale signs of snow leopards–footprints, scat, and scratch marks.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
7 May 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 23 Jun. 2025.
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