pungent
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Mr. Sullivan’s portraits are judicious and sharp, and he makes good use of pungent quotes from the newspaper scribes of the day.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
"When the shop worker took the bag inside, they noticed that this particular donation had a distinctive pungent aroma," a police spokesperson told the New Zealand Herald.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026
Sit with that pungent taste marinating on your tongue and savor every flavor profile, both the pleasant and unpleasant.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2026
Aside from being a general nuisance with their ferocious snores, pungent odors and growls, bears can do serious damage to a home.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
This time the ornaments were nature’s brilliant red-and-yellow necklaces of bittersweet, pungent pinecones, wine-red clusters of sumac berries, abandoned bird-bodied boats of milkweed, delicate thumb-size goblets of Queen Anne’s lace.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
Vocabulary lists containing pungent
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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