midden

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Recent Examples of midden Also plugging into the idea of tourism as education, marine biologist Cormac McGinley runs leave-no-trace fossil discovery walks and tours of the Burren’s lunar-like landscape, which take in sea caves, ancient middens, and color-popping anemones. Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2024 Although the bones of fish, cattle, sheep and pig were pulled out of the middens (halos of garbage dumped from the huts above), there was no evidence of human casualties. Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024 The land has been largely untouched for centuries — the Mocama and the Guale tribes had a presence on neighboring St. Simons Island, and while there is little information about Indigenous groups on Little St. Simons, shell middens suggest there was travel between the two. Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023 The restroom is around the corner, reached by walking past the mosquito-breeding experiment that is a midden of old tires. John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for midden
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Noun
  • Based on the dustbin capacity and run time, this is definitely a vacuum designed for smaller homes and spaces that consist mainly of hardwood floors.
    Brenda Stolyar, Wired News, 22 May 2025
  • The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.
    Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Will Ladd keep the cattle (and manure and flies) out of the South Big South until after the wedding?
    Erin Clements, People.com, 27 May 2025
  • But the dispute isn’t over, since the decision didn’t address whether large manure pits are allowed in town.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The series follows a team of collectors in search of antique items found in junkyards, old barns and more.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • At Melancholy, one of Salt Lake City's newest wine bars, patrons can enjoy their sips surrounded by antiques and junkyard discoveries that tell their own stories.
    Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Although primarily related to bird guano and agriculture rather than bat guano and gunpowder, the Guano Islands Act highlighted just how strategically important guano had become in American history.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Per Live Science, the case highlights the importance of raising awareness of the danger of using bat guano as a fertilizer.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Every second of every day, a garbage-truck-sized load of clothing is dumped in landfills.
    Karen Dougherty, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 2025
  • Sadly, most of these hard-to-recycle materials end up buried in landfills or get mixed into products like cement.
    Terence Musho, The Conversation, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • Ndebele art involves geometric motifs painted on the walls of houses using dung, limestone, red clays, soot, ash, and other natural pigments.
    Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • But be careful not to hit any of the rodents or the rodent dung.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.
    Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • Its most abiding image involved a young woman lying on a dunghill and working herself to orgasm with the aid of a disembodied hand.
    The Economist, The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
Noun
  • At the same time, harvested switchgrass is being adopted as a booster in novel processes to turn chicken litter — excrement and bedding left as byproducts of poultry production — into biofuel.
    Robin Roenker, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Hantavirus can be contracted from exposure to excrement from a mouse species that carries the virus.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Midden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midden. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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