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Did you smell a rat in Season 1?

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

Google says it’s part of a “long-standing policy” against creating games that take advantage of “sensitive events,” but some employees smell a rat.

From The Verge ● Oct. 16, 2019

Pilger said that she would often call him, early in the morning, after hearing of a military operation or a surgical air strike somewhere and say, “ ‘I smell a rat.’

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 18, 2019

Perhaps we should have more faith that voters — and reporters — are smart enough to smell a rat.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2016

Smells fishy, they used to say; or, I smell a rat.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood


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