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Disproportionate death sentences may be convincing to those who make clemency decisions, and they reek of unfairness.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026
So the two embarked on a survey in the university hostels asking a truly human question: if our sneakers reek, doesn't that ruin the entire experience of using a shoe rack?
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025
Grand juries may not go along with prosecutions that reek of vengeance, and trial juries and judges are more likely to resist.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024
Our identification with the reek — which looks vaguely like a tri-horned rhino with a ruddy-colored face — specifically grows as the scene progresses.
From Salon • May 4, 2024
Every time she’d visited Bellhaven for a mission, the reek of fish made her gag if she got too near the docks.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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