feces
Example Sentences
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CLIFTON, N.J.—On a laboratory table that normally sits empty, hundreds of feces samples are arranged in stacks six vials high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Cyclosporiasis comes from food that’s gotten contaminated with human feces while being washed in fields or processing plants.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
People contract the illness by consuming food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person that contained the parasite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The farm screens each batch for four types of bacteria: salmonella, E. coli, campylobacter and listeria, all of which thrive in the intestines of cattle and can contaminate milk through microscopic flecks of infected feces.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Huge stinking piles of human feces lay everywhere; it was impossible not to walk in it.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
