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- noun Plural form of
excrement .
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Examples
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Do Ho Suh shows a multicolored sculpture made of tiny model figures; Olafur Eliasson lets a yellow Think Sphere shine on the art globetrotters; Pawel Althamer exhibits the billy goat costume with which he has travelled the world; FOS present two birds that cover newspapers with their excrements; and finally there are several shiny Anish Kapoor's and colorful Haegue Yang's.
VernissageTV: Frieze Art Fair London 2011 VernissageTV 2011
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No less a critic of markets than Karl Marx marveled at this "re-employment of excrements of production."
It's Better for Whose Environment? Eric Felten 2010
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Foramen ad latus, per quod genitalia & excrementa emittuntur: Opening on the side, through which genitalia & excrements put out (?).
Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009
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So many Topic: Obama Comments surprised me to see how much there is pent up -- both expectations unfulfilled by and excrements unflung on the Presiding Officer in Government.
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On the other hand, apparently the troops are allowed to fill their housing areas with cow or turtle excrements, if they so desire.
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Solid wastes include industrial wastes, construction wastes, agriculture wastes, house garbage, sludge, excrements, and medical wastes and so on.
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We actually have dog excrements in our courtyard right now.
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While it sounds like fun beating the excrements out of DC chars – WHY MK???
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The full Mortal Kombat vs DC List is here 2008
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The Spanish population of New Spain eats too much, he writes, and this is bad for them because it "generates a large amount of excrements, which suffocate the natural heat [of the body]."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Consequently, this excess humidity "swells the body with excrements, which, little by little, and without illness, strangles its natural heat and shortens life."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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