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putrid

[pyoo-trid] / ˈpyu trɪd /


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Overall viewership for Milan Cortina has doubled the putrid Beijing numbers of four years ago, according to NBC, setting up these Winter Games to be the most-watched in a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

"Noam. I d love your advice on how I handle my putrid press," Epstein wrote, adding that media coverage was "spiralling out of control".

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

For years, they pumped the putrid fluids deep into the ground—and triggered hundreds of earthquakes, some with a magnitude of over 5.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

The “Meg” movies make the classic mistake of assuming that, just because audiences are into shark horror, they’ll stand for whatever putrid pigswill these films call a narrative.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2025

She dosed the boys regularly and gently to purge the putrid bile from their bodies, but it seemed to have little effect.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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