waft
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Equipment makers are developing machines that are more energy-efficient, and ventilation systems that waft aroma through the lobby—an old-school marketing tactic that still does the trick.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
“If I get low enough, there will be a waft of methane,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025
Imagine playing as Mario, pirouetting through the Mushroom Kingdom as a waft of a Fire Flower power-up hits you.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025
Singaporean poet Hsien Min Toh's poem, Durians, opens by referring to the fruit's "unmistakeable waft: like garbage and onions and liquid petroleum gas all mixed in one".
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2024
Instead of having a distracting orchestra pit in front of the stage, he instructed his designers to hide the musicians underneath it and had their sound waft up into the auditorium.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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