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sniffer

noun as in nose

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Doctors would choose a sniffer designed to detect a particular vapor.

His electronic sniffers would trace a network’s lines and nodes and report back what they found.

It would be far more economical to build an artificial sniffer apparatus that wouldn’t die after a few years, with standard software that can be updated regularly across all the board.

But Kardashian, a savvy trend sniffer in reality television, fashion, and self-merchandising, was apparently the last to know.

Existing methodology can involve plough-like, armor-plated machines, handheld metal detectors and sniffer dogs.

In the face of such compelling images, the immediate response is to send money, food, medicines, relief workers, sniffer dogs.

Perhaps the spirit of the sniffer may still inspire some of the jurors who from time to time make themselves heard in your case.

He has had ten dollars' worth of telling to-day by 'Sniffer' Orne.

It is a very strong sniffer and full of zeal, and one day it did it.

Have you decided to have Mrs. Poteet and Mrs. Sniffer swap—er—puppies, Stonie?

She had seen hell, one might say, and is the Sphynxian sniffer at the value of a secret.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sniffer, such as: beak, snout, adenoids, bill, horn, and muzzle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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