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
The other was DNA metabarcoding, a molecular method that detects plant species represented in stool samples.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Researchers analyzed stool samples and prescription records from more than 2,500 participants in the Estonian Biobank who were part of the Estonian Microbiome cohort.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Auntie Matchmaker beamed at the boys and patted their heads before she settled down on my stool between them.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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She tried to toilet-train her son when he was three but he had problems with withholding stools.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 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
Looking inside the bar, an AFP reporter saw a row of stools and bottles of beer still on tables covered with white dust.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
We ate matching meals, perched on the stools in their kitchen.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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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
Do you recall that evening when you stooled against the column where the decrees are posted?
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
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
Such corners have either to be filleted or "stooled" in stripping plate work, and neither method often is practicable.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various
“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
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
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
In the stooling method the young plants are cut off a short distance above the ground level.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Man's most serious physiological fault is the toleration of constipation; or even of semi-constipation induced by the twenty-four-hour habit of stooling.
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
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