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excrement

[ek-skruh-muhnt] / ˈɛk skrə mənt /


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In the third room, he finds people sipping coffee while waist deep in excrement.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Unidentified ashes in mouldy boxes and excrement and bodily fluids on the floor of the Hessle Road premises were among the other disturbing discoveries.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

That includes used oxygen cylinders, discarded climbing gear and human excrement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Specifically, he posted an A.I.-generated video of a fighter jet, piloted by himself in a literal crown, dropping human excrement onto the crowds.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Kaz put his sleeve up to his mouth as the stink from the closed-up room reached him—urine, excrement.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

A path blooming with cow patties is likely to be less grueling than one marked only by the dark, nutlike excrements of goats, who can get up anywhere.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

There, old wounds on trilobite shells abound, and fossil excrements, likely produced by trilobites, contain yet more trilobite shells.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

However, I’m placing dog turds at the bottom of my list because I grew up in Rome, where I stepped on excrements more times than I can count.

From The Verge ● May 9, 2018

Our liquid excrements are salty, we can’t drink saltwater.

From The Guardian ● May 6, 2016

Next in value to night soil, among domestic manures, are the excrements of poultry, pigeons, etc.

From The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by George E. (George Edwin) Waring


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