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smell

[smel] / smɛl /






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Our goals at that time were to be able to tour and play places like the Smell, warehouses where you would watch from the back and say, “Hey, I think it’s gonna fill out.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

"Smell has a really profound and pervasive effect on human health, so restoring it is not just for pleasure and safety but also for psychological well-being," Datta said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

"Smell and flies were a feature at some of the illegal sites and caused a localised adverse effect to air quality," Farrar said, with landowners "forced to incur substantial costs in removing the illegal waste".

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

There were only three clean quads in his routine to the songs "The Ball" by Asaf Avidan, "The Smell of the Sea" by Alan Mayer and "Code Duello" by Power-Haus and Sergiu-Dan Muresan.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Smell Factor had one of those birds now, one of the ones that didn’t fly or sing, the metal ones, so I could tell they were meg yesterday.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson




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