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[stool] / stul /


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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

During that period, participants repeatedly completed psychological assessments and provided stool and urine samples.

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

Doha entered the waiting room and collapsed onto a stool, exhausted by everything that had happened.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

Images from inside the bar after the fire was put out showed blackened tables and stools covered in debris, with bottles still left out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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

Then came diarrhoea and blood in his stools.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

They sat on low-seated woven stools, a brass hookah between them.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed

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

From Ulysses by James Joyce

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

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

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 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

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 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


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