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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

It was horrifying for his friend to see him enveloped by stinking, rotting waste.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025

Columnists Mark Z. Barabak and Anita Chabria took it all in before dashing to catch their flights home to California, that place haters depict as a stinking hellhole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

They pick it out of the stinking tins greedily and go off with it under their blouses.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque




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