rankness
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Writing for Defector last year, Barry Petchesky attempted to wrap his head around the unique rankness of the latter-day Trump directive.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026
At the time of Reggie’s residence, Machado Lake was known for its rankness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024
And the reader too becomes immersed in Friedman’s layered and luscious prose, the vibrant colors of Alma’s world, the flowers so real “you could smell their rankness, the air brimming with sweet, candied stink.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
In fact, the delegates told each other, he was politically impossible, an amateur whose rankness you could smell.
From Time Magazine Archive
The disagreeable, cold, soft, greasy rankness of the morsel is extreme: if you don't believe it, try it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
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