poo
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Located in the Pacific Ocean 2,500 miles north east of Australia, Nauru's historical wealth was built on its vast deposits of phosphate from fossilised bird poo.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
"A number of factors can affect water quality. It is certainly not just about water companies. Weather, animal poo, road-run-off and littering are all to blame."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
"We get very excited by flattened poo," is a sentence I was not expecting.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Symptoms can include jaundice, itchy skin, darker pee, paler poo, unexplained weight loss, tiredness and high temperature.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
He looks around to see what I might be seeing and then he says, “Good poo, Todd.”
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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"It's glitz, it's glamour, it's fishing poos out the bathtub," Hague says of her daily routine.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
Appearing at a genetic engineering competition with a briefcase of colorful poos was a way to start conversations with the people building this new field.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 10, 2021
“You can put them in the bath so you have poos racing against each other.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2019
Meeting Dave gives him a chance to reveal the real Kim, not a god but just one of the guys: he pees and poos.
From Time ● Dec. 17, 2014
And he did three little poos under the sink and I picked them up and flushed them down the toilet and then I got back into the bath again because it was warm and nice.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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"You might see a few white dots on me because I get pooed on nearly every day being down here."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Back in the day they didn't make a sound – even when an elephant pooed on set.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2012
Compare this to, say, Kings of Leon who recently pulled out of gigs citing a "torn bicep" at one, a burnt tourbus at another and – famously – being pooed on by pigeons at another.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2011
One episode revolved around finding out who had pooed on a chair and who was going to clean it up.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2010
The babies didn’t wear actual diapers — they delicately moved away and pooed elsewhere if they needed to go.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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“You can use DNA tracing to figure out which dog is pooing on the lawn,” one landlord suggested.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
I was diagnosed after six months of a change of bowel habits, basically where I was pooing blood.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2023
"It's disgusting to them because you are talking about people pooing themselves. But it's an everyday reality for us."
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2015
Berg has defended his article as being about "taxpayer-subsidised pooing", but what he's chosen to ignore is that since the Coalition's introduction of the GST in 1999, we are all taxpayers now.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2013
You put them on the table and they start pooing and peeing everywhere, and it’s not a pretty picture.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2010