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flatulence

[flach-uh-luhns] / ˈflætʃ ə ləns /


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Napoleon exclaims during an extended instance of flatulence.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

When the cave floods, the rising and falling of the water sucks through air and makes a sound uncannily similar to flatulence.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2026

Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed Smart Underwear, the first wearable device designed specifically to measure human flatulence.

From Science Daily Mar. 14, 2026

“We desperately need to understand what the baseline of human flatulence patterns are,” says Brantley Hall, the study’s principal researcher at UMD.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

But underneath it all she could not conceive that the boy the gypsies took away was the same lout who would eat half a suckling pig for lunch and whose flatulence withered the flowers.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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