smelled
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It was a cool, rainy morning and the trail, mostly deserted, smelled fresh and funky, like wet moss, gloopy mud and damp leaves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The place supposedly smelled of cheddar for weeks afterward.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
The haze can be smelled even indoors in the city of about 700,000 people.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
“I saw thick smoke and smelled a strong odor of gunpowder,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
It smelled like a concentration of growing things, green and earthy— like life distilled.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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