poo
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It is another sign of water vole activity - squashed poo.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
"I've never been so excited to see a poo," says urban rewilding officer Pia Trevelyan-Ashby.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
"We get very excited by flattened poo," is a sentence I was not expecting.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Local legend had it you couldn’t take three paces without stepping on broken glass, dog poo, or a rusty piece of the pool’s slippery metal slide that had flaked away.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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"When you have hundreds of these dog poos scattered across the landscape, you can imagine the cumulative damage this could cause over several years."
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2023
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
Also comes with an outstretched fingers-plastic bag type arrangement for daintily picking up poos.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2015
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
You may also be noticing a change in bowel habit, such as looser poo or pooing more often than normal.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2022
Or is public pooing an extreme act of rebellion?
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2018
“But it was running around throwing up on things, pooing, peeing, barking all night, running in circles hysterically excited, and sleeping for three hours.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2016
Late last year, I read that we are pooing all wrong: we should be squatting, not sitting, on a toilet bowl.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2015