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stinking

[sting-king] / ˈstɪŋ kɪŋ /


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“These are all the struggles I think about every stinking day,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Stafford Hopkins is good-looking, brilliant, successful and stinking rich.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Litchfield said residents could also contribute to Guernsey's biodiversity by helping to get rid of invasive non-native species, like stinking onions and wild leek.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

Not the good, high-altitude ozone that shields us from dangerous UV light, but bad ozone, hovering right above ground level — stinking, brownish, grayish photochemical smog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

They could smell him in his stinking rags.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy




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