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stool

noun

Definition of stool

as in feces

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Recent Examples of stool His is the kind of performance — just a man, two acoustic guitars, a stool and a microphone — that flies in the face of today’s uber-grandiose pop shows. — Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026 Architects Barry Simpson and Charles Hosford made a folding stool that could serve as a seat, stepstool or side table. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026 In lab testing, stool samples from participants with IBD were less effective at breaking down milk proteins, especially in the group who reported food intolerances. — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Giardia live in the intestines of infected people and animals and spread through their stool. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for stool

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Each pays $69 a month to learn from Swoop Scoop's founders and from other members starting their own poop scooping businesses around the country.

— Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
Depending on the machine and settings, that material ends up in a purge tower built alongside the print, or in a collection of little plastic doll's-house-looking spaghetti balls, affectionately known as printer poop.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of poop

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During the first re-inspection, the inspector saw about 10 pieces of rodent dung under the air-conditioning unit, seven in the hallway by the back door and three under storage by the hallway bathroom.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
In southern India, for example, villagers are allowing – and even paying – herders to use their land in exchange for dung, the natural fertilizer that farmers need to produce higher-value organic crops.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of dung

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Continuing to explore the hotel’s outdoor spaces, next up is the Almagra Rooftop, which gets its name from the originally Arabic word used to describe the typically reddish soil found in Seville.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
The mangrove forest's mature trees and carbon-rich soils store earth warming greenhouse gases, said Marie Arnaud, a researcher at the French Sustainable Development Institute based at the Sorbonne University in Paris.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of soil

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The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) says manure runoff from Kilby Farm on Firetower Road in Colora caused a massive fish kill in Basin Run, killing nearly 11,000 fish across 25 species.

— Tara Lynch, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
The report also noted that 40 percent of participating farmers reduced their synthetic pesticide active ingredient use per hectare last year, with 34 percent reporting usage of organic fertilizers such as manure.

— Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of manure

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Whisper, another rescue dog with Rogue Detection Teams, rolled around enthusiastically with her rope toy in the courtyard after successfully identifying some scat.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Sproles was a classic scat-back who had more catches than carries in three years in New Orleans.

— Luca Evans, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of scat

Noun

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
My group first watched a video, which explained that the plant’s effluent would be released into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a thirty-mile-long waterway built in the late nineteenth century to rid the city of its ordure.

— Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2022

Definition of ordure

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