excrement
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She says she is only supposed to mop and sanitize when there is vomit or excrement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Prison officers had previously claimed the 30-year-old, who was on remand for unpaid fines and breach of the peace, had smashed up his cell and covered himself in excrement.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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
Researchers speculate they likely got infected during an activity in which they were exposed to a rodent carrying the disease or its excrement.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
They dragged the excrement to surrounding fields or carried it on their backs.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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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
The excrements are of a dark color, frothy, and fetid, and, in the latter stages, appear to be only half digested.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
Vocabulary lists containing excrement
Cesar Chavez's Commonwealth Club Address (1984)
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