strong-smelling
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Its website lists symptoms as feeling thirsty, having dark yellow, strong-smelling urine; urinating less often than usual; feeling dizzy or lightheaded; feeling tired; a dry mouth, lips and tongue.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2025
When polar bears enter these dumps in search of food, they are attracted to strong-smelling substances, some of which are not even edible.
From Salon • Jul. 24, 2022
A strong-smelling gas, formaldehyde is used in making building materials and plastics and often as a component of disinfectants and preservatives.
From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2022
Like other boys growing up in the 1960s, he collected and killed butterflies, stowing them in drawers treated with an insecticide, paradichlorobenzene, the strong-smelling substance used in old mothballs, which also repels mites and beetles.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020
He wished that he had been less resentful of Mama’s strong-smelling soups.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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