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pungent

[puhn-juhnt] / ˈpʌn dʒənt /




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Glendale resident Trinity Shi, 42, witnessed three blooms at the Huntington in 2022 and 2023 and compared the smell to rotten fish: pungent, but not unbearable.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

The pungent smell of death emanates from the Caracas morgue, an odour that thousands of liters of donated chlorine cannot mask.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

But an unusually abundant 2026 has crashed the price of the prickly, pungent fruit beloved in large parts of Asia.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

Mallory Dodge, a stay-at-home mom in Georgia, was flooded with pungent memories of Axe when considering which starter cologne to buy her teenage son last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

Humans were the most pungent animals in the macrocosm.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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