pungent
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Packets of food were strewn across the floor, doors hung off their hinges, and a pungent smell of faeces filled the air.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
The workers fled, leaving behind uneaten bowls of noodles, half-drunk cans of coke and a pungent smell.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
Aside from being a general nuisance with their ferocious snores, pungent odors and growls, bears can do serious damage to a home.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
And Joq is genuinely fascinated by the way hickory smoke mellows and rounds out a pungent blue cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Fried mung-bean pancake with spicy sauce, wafting in the air with the bricks of pungent soybean paste hawked by a nearby merchant, so strong you could taste it.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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