as in truck
waste material (such as human urine and feces) that is carried away from homes and other buildings in a system of pipes
raw sewage
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Recent Examples of sewage
The company also points out the land sits next to a tractor-trailer depot already approved by Miami-Dade on land that’s also outside the UDB and that Miami-Dade once seriously considered building a sewage-treatment plant on the site before that project fizzled years ago.
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Interestingly, the local sewage sludge was pretreated, resulting in a 200 percent increase in renewable natural gas production while cutting disposal costs in half.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Apr. 2026
Scientists have also found more rotavirus by monitoring community sewage to track how germs are spreading.
—Annette Regan, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
Some residents say rodents, broken elevators and sewage problems have been plaguing their apartment building for years, and fixes didn't come until the arrest.
—Noelle Lilley, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Interestingly, the local sewage sludge was pretreated, resulting in a 200 percent increase in renewable natural gas production while cutting disposal costs in half.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Apr. 2026
Scientists have also found more rotavirus by monitoring community sewage to track how germs are spreading.
—Annette Regan, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
Some residents say rodents, broken elevators and sewage problems have been plaguing their apartment building for years, and fixes didn't come until the arrest.
—Noelle Lilley, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sewage
Noun
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The occasional roars of delivery trucks and motorcycles that used our alleys to get around the traffic of the main roads, to cut through the city.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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These include blending hydrogen with natural gas for use in pipelines, powering heavy-duty trucks, and using hydrogen in industrial boilers.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The dust will take about three weeks to settle.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Scientists identified plant traces by sequencing microscopic DNA fragments found in dust and fibers collected from the Shroud, rather than discovering visible food remains.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The old refuse was collected into a single pile in the 1950s and newer operations continued to accumulate waste there, per DRMS.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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But some of that refuse, the ghost recalls, found a second life in the hands of a woman named Cara.—
Omari Weekes,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Sewage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sewage. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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