stool

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Recent Examples of stool Either way, this type of fiber makes your stool heftier and easier to pass. 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 See All Example Sentences for stool
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
  • But…how exactly can the same stuff firm up your poop in one situation, and loosen it another?
    Julie Stewart, SELF, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Rodents left about 15 pieces of poop behind reach-in cooler in the food preparation area, three pieces under the dry storage shelf in that area and five on the floor in the employee restroom.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The virus is typically transmitted through rodent excrement.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Bedbug excrement appears as black spots on bedding or furniture.
    Nancy LeBrun, Verywell Health, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Ancient Egyptians also revered dung beetles because the rolling of the dung balls reminded them of the sun god rolling the sun across the sky, according to the Israel Museum.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Living in the wood economy means relying on wood, dung, and other basic bioenergy.
    Ted Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2016
Noun
  • To minimize outdoor pollution during poor air quality, officials urged people to carpool; telecommute; reduce trips or take public transportation; slow down when driving on dirt roads; and stabilize loose soils.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Teams will eventually undertake soil studies and drone-based, multispectral ground sensing to measure potential improvements to soil quality and carbon capture capacity on farmland that uses these techniques.
    Robin Roenker, USA Today, 18 Apr. 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
  • The night soil temperatures are not ideal to put them out yet.
    oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 May 2021
Noun
  • These tasks include milking, feeding and manure management.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Only use manure from livestock and to not add pet waste or human manure to standard composting systems.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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