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nose

noun as in smelling organ of animate being

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During a sixth-inning at-bat, Fry was attempting to bunt when the ball missed the bat completely and hit him in the nose and mouth area.

"He threw a tea towel over my head and then bit me on the nose," she said.

From BBC

But instead of navigating society balls and dowries, Pickett's modern Emma is poking her nose into her friends' online dating profiles, having returned home after failing her exams at Oxford University.

From BBC

A woman has said she is living in constant pain and is unable to breathe through her nose after having dental work in Turkey.

From BBC

The culprit was Naegleria fowleri - commonly known as the brain-eating amoeba - an infection usually contracted through the nose in freshwater and so rare that most doctors never encounter a case in their entire careers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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