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Take a deep breath in Hollywood’s Kimpton Everly Hotel and you may catch a whiff of sandalwood, leather, fennel, cardamom, violet and cedar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“There’s nothing like attractive real yields and a whiff of slower growth to shift the narrative and spur a renewed bid into rates,” said Melson at Natixis.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

There is much work to do in defence, for sure, but they can do that work from a position of strength - with the whiff of an extra £40m in their nostrils.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

These shots of concentrated caffeine are meant to be sipped, not sniffed, but one whiff of a ragingly popular one—bouquet de Dubble Bubble and wet sneakers—was enough to put me off them forever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

He’s only been gone a couple days, but he’d give anything to catch a whiff of the flowery perfume Shenice started wearing at the beginning of the year, or hear one of Drake’s corny jokes.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

The laughs keep coming, especially when a little bot in a soccer jersey whiffs a kick and splats on its back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Despite those whiffs of corruption, the deal could let the Department of Defense acquire shares in NABEP, the Wall Street Journal reports.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

Even with the altitude affecting the shape of his pitches, he was getting whiffs on his curveball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

For now, he keeps squandering his Marvel breaks on whiffs like “Cherry” and “Uncharted.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

She clamped her mouth shut and let out twin whiffs of air through her nostrils; had she done it any harder or any louder, it would have been called a snort.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

Top awards bodies whiffed on her complex Selina/Catwoman in “Batman Returns” and heartbreaking Betty Ford on Showtime’s “The First Lady.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

But it turned out they whiffed on him—and lost their own star in the process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

In their mutual aim for a modern twist on a timeless classic, both the star-studded, multi-million dollar Apple TV+ movie and the low-budget indie comedy whiffed it entirely.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025

In the first two innings, the team made six-straight outs, struck out five times, swung at 22 of Gausman’s first 32 pitches, and whiffed on 12 while fouling off several mistake fastballs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

Anyway, he hadn’t sniffed it, he had only whiffed it.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Ohtani fouled off the next two pitches before whiffing on a sinker to end the inning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

But when they did try to attack it, they could do nothing with it, whiffing on the pitch five times and recording outs on the only two that were put in play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2025

And a year after whiffing on four tackles attempts against Oregon, Turner — club, cast and all — didn’t miss a tackle.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2023

He saved bogey after whiffing his third shot from the heavy greenside rough on the par-5 eighth.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

By day nineteen after the whiffing incident, when they hadn’t had any bloody noses, Peter Jahrling and Tom Geisbert began to regard themselves as definite survivors.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston