midden

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Recent Examples of midden 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 Faith, Chase and Quick sampled middens near Boomplaas Cave last September and received the first radiocarbon dates from the samples earlier this year. Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for midden
Recent Examples of Synonyms for midden
Noun
  • Putting it into mop mode is as easy as filling up the reservoir in the dustbin with clean water and attaching the mop pad.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Others, like a tablet controller or glasses-free stereoscopic 3D, are rightly remembered as half-baked gimmicks that belong in the dustbin of game industry history.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These tasks include milking, feeding and manure management.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Only use manure from livestock and to not add pet waste or human manure to standard composting systems.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Joe adds that Christopher was always going to die in the end (although a quick moment in a junkyard seems to imply that Christopher's consciousness in the Cosmo bot somehow survived).
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 Mar. 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
  • Materials banned from Fort Worth landfills Hazardous household chemicals and construction debris are mainly what Fort Worth residents cannot throw away.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Either way, your old shoes are likely to end up in a landfill.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Ancient Egyptians also revered dung beetles because the rolling of the dung balls reminded them of the sun god rolling the sun across the sky, according to the Israel Museum.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Living in the wood economy means relying on wood, dung, and other basic bioenergy.
    Ted Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2016
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
  • The virus is typically transmitted through rodent excrement.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Bedbug excrement appears as black spots on bedding or furniture.
    Nancy LeBrun, Verywell Health, 27 Feb. 2025

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“Midden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midden. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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