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manure

noun

Definition of manure

as in soil

solid discharge from farm animals that is used to make soil better for growing plants a bag of cow manure

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Recent Examples of manure Nutrients that aren’t absorbed are largely excreted, contributing to the mineral load in manure. — Aidan Connolly, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026 The Faaborgs raised around 8,000 hogs each year, producing roughly a million gallons of liquid manure. — Rachel Cramer, NPR, 21 Sep. 2026 Even manures, unless composted,can contain ready-to-sprout seeds. — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026 In a small town, several dead people are brought back to life through a strange ritual involving burning duck manure. — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for manure

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Obviously, the network of partners and proxies did not deter an attack on Iranian soil.

— Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026
The work raises new questions about soil, carbon, and even what counts as an individual organism.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of soil

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During the first re-inspection, the inspector saw about 10 pieces of rodent dung under the air-conditioning unit, seven in the hallway by the back door and three under storage by the hallway bathroom.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
In southern India, for example, villagers are allowing – and even paying – herders to use their land in exchange for dung, the natural fertilizer that farmers need to produce higher-value organic crops.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of dung

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Wolf has never sounded more grounded than with 10 toes down in the muck.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026
As feminists fought patriarchy’s attempt to render women vulnerable socially and leave us dependent on men for money and more, the all-too-human inevitability of vulnerability and dependence got lost in the muck.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of muck

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In a new study published in Science on Thursday, researchers collected stool samples from more than 170 people before and after a second or third dose of a COVID vaccine.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026
His is the kind of performance — just a man, two acoustic guitars, a stool and a microphone — that flies in the face of today’s uber-grandiose pop shows.

— Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

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Just be prepared for the machine to spend a considerable amount of time producing a small mountain of plastic waste alongside your masterpiece.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
Florentina Holzinger’s waste-processing, piss-wallowing Seaworld Venice at this year’s Austrian Pavilion?

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

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