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excrement

[ek-skruh-muhnt] / ˈɛk skrə mənt /


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In the third room, he finds people sipping coffee while waist deep in excrement.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Large groups of black vultures have taken up residence in town, covering the quaint historic district in feathers and foul-smelling excrement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Specifically, he posted an A.I.-generated video of a fighter jet, piloted by himself in a literal crown, dropping human excrement onto the crowds.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

It spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, including sweat, saliva, blood, semen, excrement, urine and vomit.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

He that said “I bleed,” he reached up to the sun and pulled out handfuls of excrement from the bowels of the sun, and with that dung made the hills and valleys of the earth.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

A path blooming with cow patties is likely to be less grueling than one marked only by the dark, nutlike excrements of goats, who can get up anywhere.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

There, old wounds on trilobite shells abound, and fossil excrements, likely produced by trilobites, contain yet more trilobite shells.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

However, I’m placing dog turds at the bottom of my list because I grew up in Rome, where I stepped on excrements more times than I can count.

From The Verge ● May 9, 2018

Our liquid excrements are salty, we can’t drink saltwater.

From The Guardian ● May 6, 2016

Unknowingly at first, the farmer had supplied this element by means of the organic fertilizers he used: manure, excrements, bones, and horns.

From History of Phosphorus by Eduard Farber


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