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Recent Examples of stool
Either way, this type of fiber makes your stool heftier and easier to pass.
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Julie Stewart, SELF, 25 Mar. 2025
The debut collection—featuring sculptural yet functional pieces, including a side table, armchair, sofa, stools, and screen room dividers—reflects a meticulous balance of artistic expression and everyday usability.
—Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
When eaten, chia seeds form a gelatin-like substance that helps soften stools and promotes regular bowel movements.
—Sarah Scott, Verywell Health, 31 Mar. 2025
This set of two swivel bar stools offers a vintage-style look.
—Christopher Murray, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Julie Stewart, SELF, 25 Mar. 2025
The debut collection—featuring sculptural yet functional pieces, including a side table, armchair, sofa, stools, and screen room dividers—reflects a meticulous balance of artistic expression and everyday usability.
—Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
When eaten, chia seeds form a gelatin-like substance that helps soften stools and promotes regular bowel movements.
—Sarah Scott, Verywell Health, 31 Mar. 2025
This set of two swivel bar stools offers a vintage-style look.
—Christopher Murray, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
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But…how exactly can the same stuff firm up your poop in one situation, and loosen it another?—
Julie Stewart,
SELF,
25 Mar. 2025
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Cybertrucks have been egged (in this economy!) and smeared with dog poop, and Tesla drivers are regularly taunted by Nazi salutes and signs left on their cars.—
Chandra Steele,
PCMAG,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The rest of the year, aside from the occasional sunbather, the area is mostly used by geese, who often leave the lawn dotted with their excrement.—
Kale Williams,
Axios,
25 Mar. 2025
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Yogi Sahu, a resident near Chynoweth Park who had organized with his neighbors to pressure City Hall to act, recalled RV dwellers dumping human excrement into the trains, hanging underwear on trees, playing loud music and stealing packages.—
Devan Patel,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Ancient Egyptians saw some scarabs as representations of new life because the insects are known for rolling balls of dung and then laying their eggs in them, the Israel Antiquities Authority said.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
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To anyone sane who respects basic American norms and traditions, these firms are doing their job — and the abuse of executive power to treat them roughly as one might a terrorist organization is to cast the rule of law into a dung heap.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Chevron also challenged the costly wetlands restoration project proposed by the parish, which involved removing large amounts of contaminated soil and filling in the swaths fragmented wetlands eroded over the last century.—
Jack Brook,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2025
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The Basketball Africa League (BAL) is set to kick off its fifth season today, in Rabat, Morocco—a historic moment as the league plays its inaugural games on Moroccan soil.—
Sindiswa Mabunda,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 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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If your soil is very poor, work in some compost or aged manure before planting, and your marigolds should grow just fine.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Apr. 2025
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Microorganisms in cow manure digest organic matter, releasing biogas – a mix of methane and carbon dioxide.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Blige also connected jazz (scat singing, riffing on a phrase, improvising wordless lines), gospel (testifying akin to a preacher delivering a sermon) and hip hop traditions.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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Despite recent concerns about an increase in cat consumption, the scientists found feline remnants in only about 4.5 percent of the scat samples.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
22 Jan. 2025
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 16 Apr. 2025.
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