stool
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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
Under a black coat, the petite and poised Navarrette sits on a stool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Researchers also collected stool and urine samples to track changes in gut microbes, metabolism, mood, and perceived stress.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
When we found blood in our cat Gumdrop’s stool earlier this year, my boyfriend, Ean, and I rushed him to the vet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
They beamed over at Flora, who was seated on a small stool by the fireplace now and looking angelic, her dark hair hanging in sweet ringlets.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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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
Then came diarrhoea and blood in his stools.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
The nearly 200 people gathered on this January evening just past 9 p.m. stand on stools and chairs in the back and loll on the sidewalk on their elbows in the front.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026
Floating above the rest, standing on stools perhaps, were Jackson and Pierrot, their expressions solemn.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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
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
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
He gazed round the stooled and tabled eaters, tightening the wings of his nose.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
Do you recall that evening when you stooled against the column where the decrees are posted?
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
“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
In the case of wheat and other grains, thin seeding also gives a plant a better chance for stooling, which is Nature's method of adapting the plant to the prevailing moisture and fertility conditions.
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe
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
Man needs to form the habit of stooling as frequently as birds, fowls, and quadrupeds—at least as many times in twenty-four hours as he partakes of food.
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 it begins to thicken up by stooling out, then, and not till then, will you be warranted in setting the mower so that it will cut closely.
From Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover by Eben E. (Eben Eugene) Rexford