putrid
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Since the garden exhibited its first corpse flower in 1999, thousands of people flock to its conservatory every summer, just to smell these putrid plants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The hulking structure looked like a giant, putrid sheet cake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Hailing from the rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia, corpse flowers are a massive, putrid spectacle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Overall viewership for Milan Cortina has doubled the putrid Beijing numbers of four years ago, according to NBC, setting up these Winter Games to be the most-watched in a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
Ron had given up completely, and was merely trying to avoid breathing in the putrid fumes issuing from his cauldron.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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