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as in stench
a strong unpleasant smell
the stink of burned plastic lingered in the kitchen for days after we accidentally melted a spatula on the stove
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as in objection
a feeling or declaration of disapproval or dissent
many town residents raised an unholy stink about the proposal to increase taxes yet again
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Recent Examples of stink
Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
Yet, unlike the stink of GameStop, these are real, very real companies.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2024
Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2024
Picking standouts at each position My dynasty league football team stinks!
—New York Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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Noun
The Giants gave Mike Kafka a promotion to assistant head coach last season to spray some cologne on their coaching staff’s stink coming off last season.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
Yet, unlike the stink of GameStop, these are real, very real companies.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2024
Verb
Run game stinks The run game never got going Thursday.
—Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2024
Picking standouts at each position My dynasty league football team stinks!
—New York Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stink
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Frankincense and myrrh are herbs burned to cover the stench of death.Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
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The stench here is too fresh, and certainly no proud moment for the Hollywood establishment of stars and image makers who play a square game.Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 5 Jan. 2025
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The film has been criticized for trafficking in clichés and gender stereotypes, for equating transitioning with death, for presenting it as a kind of moral redemption, for making older cisgender audiences feel virtuous by endorsing it, among other objections.Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2025
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And appeals courts have upheld the gag order over Trump’s First Amendment objections.Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2025
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Share [Findings] Scientists trained subjects to exercise control over a single neuron, linked the hippocampus to regret, and concluded that humans smell in stereo.Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Here’s your first riddle of the year: It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.Erik Kain, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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That’s the fun thing for me, is there’s no reason the next one couldn’t suck back in and be a chamber piece again.Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
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Despite its appearance, the hummingbird’s tongue doesn't suck up nectar like a drinking straw.National Geographic, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
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This level of funding is sure to be disruptive to the pro game; rumors are that dozens of PPA exclusive pros are inquiring about availability exceptions for this event already.Todd Boss, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Even the protections that preserve the park where de la Torre works contain exceptions for oil companies and Indigenous communities, and wildlife hunting is still rampant.Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
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In the first, researchers found in 2007 that Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers that served as emergency shelters for many displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita reeked of formaldehyde.Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2024
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The fan base’s organizational distrust, though, was such that the transaction reeked of conspiracy.Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 9 Apr. 2024
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Police confirmed on Monday that no investigation had yet been launched, but the complaint would be assessed.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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The information in my complaint was from a long-ago completed investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE).Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2025
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Some questions are hard to answer and always have been.Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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If the purpose is to benefit humanity, the question of a greater artificial intelligence—whether it could be called general or superintelligence—cannot be addressed separately from that of creating something akin to what would define machine integrity behavioral capability: artificial integrity.Hamilton Mann, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Stink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stink. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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