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as in perfuming
to fill or infuse with a pleasant odor or odor-releasing substance
fancy bars of soap scented with lavender
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as in sensing
to have a vague awareness of
he scented danger
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Recent Examples of scenting
Marin Humane offers an array of classes for you and your canine buddy, from basic obedience to scenting to agility.
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Lisa Bloch, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
Nest New York is once again scenting the city for the holiday season.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
Lisa Bloch, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
Nest New York is once again scenting the city for the holiday season.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scenting
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Fortunately, that something can be as easy as spicing it with ginger, perfuming it with florals or smoke, or easier still and our favorite version, adding a grapefruit peel to the shaker tin before shaking on ice.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
7 Mar. 2026
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The scent of orange blossoms perfuming our neighborhoods.—
Carolynn Carreño,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2026
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Images posted to the hacking group’s Telegram account included a picture of Patel sniffing a cigar and posing for photos.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Mar. 2026
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Don’t think bluebloods wouldn’t come sniffing around Austin to grab the Miller magic.—
Kirk Bohls,
Houston Chronicle,
25 Mar. 2026
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Together, these enable the robot to estimate obstacle locations in 3D and navigate safely using milliwatt-level sensing power.—
Nitin Sanket,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
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Understanding this cold-sensing protein could one day lead to better therapies for cold hypersensitivity that often troubles people undergoing certain types of cancer chemotherapies.—
Jacek Krywko,
Scientific American,
25 Mar. 2026
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Just before Sunday’s collision, controllers were dealing with another plane that had declared an emergency after aborting a takeoff and smelling an odor on the plane.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2026
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Red, white and blue smoke shaped as an American flag hung in the air for a moment before quickly dissolving into a foul-smelling cloud that covered the ballpark and looked like a twisted tribute to, oh say, a military incursion.—
Sports Columnist,
San Francisco Chronicle,
25 Mar. 2026
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But the social psychologists who catapulted to prominence in the early two-thousands were less interested in the richer concept of eudaemonia and more interested in a thinner, hollower, and vastly more individualistic enterprise of happiness, of simply feeling good.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Those non-native plants, which include heirloom fruit trees like peaches, plums and apricots, have started feeling the impacts of a warmer and drier climate, according to Cowen.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
29 Mar. 2026
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When a degraded grassland returns to health, the ground heaves up, as if inhaling with relief.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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Humans are evolutionarily designed for hunting and gathering — not for lifting 50-pound boxes for eight hours straight or inhaling toxic dust in an industrial sanding booth.—
Vivek Ranadive,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2026
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Whizzing by the moon up to 6,000 miles above the surface, the astronauts will also glimpse the celestial body's full disk, seeing sights that not even the Apollo astronauts witnessed.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Being embedded meant slowing down, listening, and understanding the genealogy of the triennial itself—seeing HT25 not as a rupture, but as part of an ongoing continuum.—
Wassan Al-Khudhairi,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Scenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scenting. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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