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Recent Examples of stank
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The Dolphins in their 33-8 loss in Indy stunk like Limburger cheese left in a car trunk.—Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
The sergeant noted at least 12 bruises alone were found on the boy from the forehead down to the jaw on both sides of Campbell's face and that the child smelled overwhelmingly like urine.
Every red and blue photon gets sucked into a plant for photosynthesis, just the green ones ricocheting through the understory to form a kind of therapeutic light bath.
—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
His frequent use of direct-to-camera narration initially seems like a cloying misstep (mostly because so many other movies have sucked the fun out of that device).
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