musk
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Federal authorities charged a Daly City man in an international trafficking plot to smuggle nearly 300 poached loggerhead musk turtles from Florida to Taiwan.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
The patrolmen are equipped with rifles and handguns, to be used as a last resort against angry polar bears and musk ox.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
To make it happen, the firm turned to Google Cloud, which sent a handful of AI engineers armed with Gemini models to spend a day sniffing floral musk, and then managed to crack the code.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
“Did elon musk just hit the roman salute at his inauguration speech?”
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
This overwhelming musk of animal waste and chemicals—almost like the odor of salt water and unwashed bodies.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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A trail of musks, resinous woods and creamy florals follow him around like an orb of protection.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024
The new fragrance oil comes in a 10-millimeter, travel-friendly rollerball bottle and is an olfactory delight thanks to 12 musks: lily of the valley, ambergris, oakmoss and amber woods, among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
But the distinctive quality all musks share is a certain lushness, a tendency to smell as opulent as cashmere feels.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
Modern musks can be filthy, dainty, weighty, wispy; in short, they’re unpredictable.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
The air was rife with the musks of the blossomed mountain-sides, and a medley of bird-music emanated from a hundred species, flitting and flapping their wet wings in the morning dew.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald