stool

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Recent Examples of stool Under a black coat, the petite and poised Navarrette sits on a stool. — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026 Wayne became the third leg of the stool for people like Dominick Dunne, who had a knack for earning people’s confidence and could spin a hell of a yarn. — Mike Hogan, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026 The backstory For most of my life, the Old Dutch Inn has been just a faint memory of kicking my legs from a bar stool, drinking a Shirley Temple next to my late grandmother, who would likely have been nursing a gin and tonic. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026 Who actually needs digestive enzymes Signs of a genuine enzyme deficiency include diarrhea, stomach pain, bloating, unexplained weight loss and fatty or oily stool that floats. — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for stool
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
Noun
  • And to his hundreds of millions of followers on X, Musk reposted an image of Gibney with a poop emoji on his head.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The airline can provide treats, blankets, toys, leashes, poop bags, and calming aids like pheromones, music, and lavender-scented towels.
    — Sarah Kuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Mosquito excrement could provide valuable insight on potential pathogens.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Gulliver incredulously witnesses people attempting to extract sunbeams from cucumbers and turn excrement back into edible food.
    — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The footpad cannot extract energy from chemically inert surfaces such as plastic, glass, soil, or organic tissue, prompting the team to add a small onboard supercapacitor to buffer power across dead zones.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2026
  • As regenerative claims become increasingly common, the sector needs to move beyond broad narratives and focus on measurable outcomes, from soil health and biodiversity to water use, emissions, yields and profitability.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026
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
  • Meanwhile, without the animal manure that farmers once used to enrich the soil, the farmers’ seedlings struggle to germinate.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026
  • People tend to think of waste as trash, sewage, slag, manure and other seemingly useless or disgusting substances.
    — Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • The researchers also note any other signs of bear activity in the area, such as footprints, scat or a sighting of a live bear.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
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

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“Stool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stool. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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