stool

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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. 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 See all Example Sentences for stool 
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Housekeepers, too, have had to deal with pet excrements.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2025
  • In one photo, Kristoff is outside, surrounded by piles of excrement and a plastic doghouse.
    Rachel McRady, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Hundreds of barefoot pilgrims undertook a parikrama one morning, picking around heaps of cow dung dotting the road.
    Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 5 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • That would allow those troops to be used in civilian law enforcement on U.S. soil.
    Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The order directs federal agencies to stop issuing citizenship documents such as passports to children born on U.S. soil to parents in the country illegally or under temporary visas.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2025
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 contracts also hold farmers responsible for disposing of the hundreds of tons of manure that a typical poultry farm produces each year, along with the thousands of birds that die before they can be harvested.
    Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2025
  • However, the protest did not fully go as planned, as most of the manure remained frozen in the truck bed due to freezing temperatures.
    Gabe Whisnant, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 30 Jan. 2025.

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