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excrement

[ek-skruh-muhnt] / ˈɛk skrə mənt /


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She says she is only supposed to mop and sanitize when there is vomit or excrement.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Crofter Calum Beaton has found chemical toilet waste dumped in his household bin, and human excrement left on the land he farms.

From BBC Jun. 28, 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

The smell is "like excrement," said 68-year-old Patricio Velasquez, who shuts himself inside every summer due to the odor emanating from the dump.

From Barron's May 13, 2026

Hyenas snack on the excrement of herbivores with clucks of pleasure.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

In places where the bones and excrements of land animals or the shells and droppings of sea animals accumulate, deposits of phosphatic material may be built up.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith




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