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Doctors measured everything from blood, urine, stool samples and saliva to produce 75 pages of reports on his health.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

I greeted the door woman, bought a bottle of water, grabbed a bar stool against the far wall, and opened the book in progress on my phone until the show started.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

The practice is an ancient method of tree management, external which involves felling trees at their base to create a "stool" where new shoots will grow.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Architects Barry Simpson and Charles Hosford made a folding stool that could serve as a seat, stepstool or side table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

She sat on the stool beside him, turning on the cash register and pounding her pin number into the screen, trying not to look too irritated.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

"Callan has just missed that threshold by the tiniest of margins, he has fallen between two stools time and again, leaving him to linger in a wasteland," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

She and a dozen colleagues don cotton gloves, roll up their sleeves and plant themselves on cheap plastic stools for the task of separating out the valuable, intact mushrooms from the busted ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Constipation, diarrhea, unusually narrow stools, or a lasting change in normal bowel habits may indicate an underlying problem.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

The pavements of Hanoi's wide boulevards and narrow lanes have long been clogged with bustling food stalls, weaving scooters, and crowds of coffee and beer drinkers sitting on low plastic stools.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

We’d decided to paint one of her mom’s step stools as a distraction; Abby’s mom was so short, she carried around a lightweight collapsible stool to all major events.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

They stood back and took stock of the neglected growth, tapped an elbow of hedge-oak here, a mossed beech-stub there, swayed a stooled ash back and forth, and looked at each other.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling

The wheat had stooled well, and a couple of showers early in May had relieved the drought that threatens before the thunder-storms of June and July set in.

From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead

Do you recall that evening when you stooled against the column where the decrees are posted?

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

He gazed round the stooled and tabled eaters, tightening the wings of his nose.

From Ulysses by James Joyce

Now," said Molly breathlessly, as the last madly protesting bird had been stooled, "let's get into the blind as soon as we can, Mr. Marche.

From Blue-Bird Weather by Charles Dana Gibson

“Even if they’re not stooling out and getting dehydrated and having trouble with fluids, I worry if they’re getting enough nutrition that they’re going to grow like they should,” he said.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2022

This may have been partly the result of stooling but we have little doubt that judgment was exercised in planting, sowing less seed on the lighter soils where less moisture was available.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

The partially constricted and irritable sphincter muscles become excited during the act of stooling and react on the anal grip or contraction, making it more intense.

From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison

It should never be too much trouble to restore the lost impulse for stooling twice or thrice daily.

From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison

When plants are crowded, stooling cannot occur to any marked degree, and the crop is rendered helpless in attempts to adapt itself to surrounding conditions.

From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe