smelly
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Mexico is deploying specialized navy ships to fight a massive influx of sargassum on the country's Caribbean beaches, authorities said Thursday, as the smelly seaweed threatens the crucial tourism sector.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
As the day goes on, these smelly specimens will close back up and collapse, losing their infamously rotten odor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
"The world to a lot of us is very loud, very noisy, very crowded, very bright, very smelly, and it's exhausting suppressing your response to all of this and carrying on."
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Gas generators, the traditional option, are noisy, high maintenance and smelly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
“And the little ones are restless. We’ve no time to talk about those smelly monsters of yours. ”
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
“In certain directions, I definitely picked up on the sweaty socks, sweaty gym clothes, but probably luckily not full-on rotting meat, but definitely a smellier plant than average,” Lister said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
The magnet fishing waters she explores in Northern California are murkier, and often smellier, than the clear waters she once dived in, but she said her new hobby has strengthened her relationship with the water.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
"Thankfully he didn't seem to find his capture too alarming and hadn't released his spray in defence - otherwise it would have been a much smellier rescue mission."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2021
It’s just a bad setup and the more people look into it, the smellier it looks.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2019
The scarier, the smellier, the uglier, the better.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
It’s like saying that the smelliest dog in town got four baths this week.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Experts blame a mix of troubled crops, market forces, depleted stockpiles - and the world’s smelliest fruit.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
“Odorless” on the label means it has been refined even more to strip it of some of the smelliest — and most toxic — ingredients.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023
Or is it because chopping garlic is one of the most menial, least pleasurable, smelliest of tasks, and a refusal to do so indicates a resistance to work for our food?
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2022
And then all of a sudden she let out the biggest, loudest, smelliest fart in the history of farts.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
