latrine
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Citizen Zoo has also set up camera traps and "latrine rafts" - floating rafts where the water voles defecate - to help gather evidence of the population on the Hogsmill.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The best weapon in the “Jackass’” arsenal isn’t the taser, the beehive or the booby-trapped latrine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Researchers collected 50 sediment samples from along the drain, which stretched roughly nine meters and carried waste from a communal latrine into a stream north of the fort.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025
There was no water, and the stench of the latrine was unbearable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025
All this was paid for with money that should have gone into repairing the roof or replacing the dry palm fronds enclosing the latrine with corrugated steel sheets.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
His job hauling buckets of sewage from the latrines was no fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Pit toilets are basic, non-flush latrines that collect human waste in a deep hole in the ground.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
She had been nowhere except her house and the latrines since coming home from the hospital, Kai said.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
Flooding is bringing raw sewage into the streets, as water-management and sanitation infrastructure is destroyed, and improvised latrines spill over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
I enjoyed your story about the sergeants’ latrines.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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