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The department has also installed gas wells to better control gas emissions, odor neutralizers to reduce stench, as well as various programs that convert landfill gas to energy, Alonso said.—
Claire Wang,
Oc Register,
17 Apr. 2026 -
The stench permeates passing cars with the windows up, lingering inside for days.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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And, yet, there is a tangible sense of staleness, even with Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro the only remaining players from the Heat’s 2020 run to the NBA Finals and those two plus Dru Smith and Nikola Jovic the lone remaining players from the 2023 run to the NBA Finals.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
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The smart shopper will already note signs of staleness and mold in the old practice of a singer in stiff white tie and tails or gaudy gown, standing, arm propped on piano, of the second banana accompanist.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2026
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With their high linen content, the sheets exuded no mustiness, only the faint sweet smell of aged paper.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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The film, which screenwriter Rowan Joffé adapted from a 2014 novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne, seems aware of the orientalist mustiness of this premise without being compelled to subvert it in any meaningful way.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Many have used numbers and moral philosophy to fathom the vileness of slavery in America, for example.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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The stink began long before the fermentation set in.—
Shindy Chen
March 13,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Mar. 2026
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My small room seemed to be visibly clouded by the stink of my body and the stink of my superfluous thinking.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
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It reeks of anti-Blackness, the idea that Ciara—a nurse, a model, a catch in all respects of the word—could be seen as just an experience to these men.—
Erica Campbell,
Glamour,
2 Apr. 2026
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Does your laundry room smell like mildew or reek of stinky socks?—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
3 Mar. 2026
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Wyle found himself in a funk after the COVID-19 pandemic hit and forced him to pause his career for the first time in years.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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Breakfast browse Mets in a funk Some New York Mets fans are running out of faith as the team’s losing streak reaches a dozen games.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
22 Apr. 2026
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On one side, a satanic figure named Randall Flagg who gathers his forces of badness to Las Vegas; on the other, the good guys, led by 108-year-old Mother Abigail in, of all places, Boulder.—
Barbara Ellis,
Denver Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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The show premiered over Thanksgiving weekend, when people were tired and full and bored (and probably also horny), and countered our world’s unceasing badness with its world’s buoyant sweetness.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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