stink
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Who on Earth would genuinely want Fielder, the human equivalent of a skunk, to crash their last moments with their loved ones as he does his darnedest to stink up the place?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Bats are invaluable in agriculture, gorging on pests that target crops — corn earworms, brown stink bugs, cucumber beetles and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Innuendo leaves a lingering stink that’s harder to dispel.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
She’s one of us, a fan of an onion bagel for breakfast, even if it makes her breath stink.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
You could almost see the stink fumes rising out of it.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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It stinks if you get stuck in it, but it’s also a sign of a desirable situation, of good weather and lively culture and plentiful entertainment options that include, typically, winning baseball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
“Something where everybody stinks is the ideal sort of outing,” Norton says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“If it bleeds, it leads” is no more, replaced by something that stinks in its own way.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2026
The answer was a very direct "no", but Ross took the chance to opine that "this stinks".
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
I sniff the air, and it stinks of human smells, but there, on the weak breeze from the direction of sunrise, I smell coyote.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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"At the time you think it might be copper or iron washing down through the landscape but it stank and it was sort of oily all over her coat," Donna added.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
"Everything was foggy, you couldn't open the window and it stank," she said, showing a picture on her phone of an orange glow partially obscured by thick smoke clouds that had turned the air black.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
And if the pitch stank, Borzello wouldn’t be afraid to say so.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2024
He found a place in Astana in an apartment that stank of cat.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
It didn’t help that I stank of the filthy, fishy water in the boat, which had dried and crusted over me.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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We didn’t have whales, just freshwater fish like alewifes, which stunk up the beaches with annual die-offs that occurred in huge numbers.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
For the past five years, returns have stunk, especially following a 28% tumble for the ETF since the end of October.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
The spectator had spent most of the afternoon reminding Ohtani of how much he’d stunk in the three-game series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2025
“It was disgusting,” she said, explaining that the walls were damp and mouldy, while the flat was dirty and stunk of cigarette smoke.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024
In some ways it was pretty cool, but in others it really stunk.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Stafford Hopkins is good-looking, brilliant, successful and stinking rich.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Just last month a massive stinking lump of wet wipes, fat and oil was removed from a west London sewer.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
A poisonous river of a stinking yellow liquid rushed downhill, inundating homes and fields, including the one where she grew corn to feed her eight children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Columnists Mark Z. Barabak and Anita Chabria took it all in before dashing to catch their flights home to California, that place haters depict as a stinking hellhole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
They had locked themselves into stinking toilets, slept in dark comers, squeezed tightly together, hungry, tired and frozen.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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