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as in perfuming
to fill or infuse with a pleasant odor or odor-releasing substance
fancy bars of soap scented with lavender
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as in sensing
to have a vague awareness of
he scented danger
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Recent Examples of scenting
Marin Humane offers an array of classes for you and your canine buddy, from basic obedience to scenting to agility.
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Lisa Bloch, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
Nest New York is once again scenting the city for the holiday season.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
Lisa Bloch, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
Nest New York is once again scenting the city for the holiday season.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scenting
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Fortunately, that something can be as easy as spicing it with ginger, perfuming it with florals or smoke, or easier still and our favorite version, adding a grapefruit peel to the shaker tin before shaking on ice.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
7 Mar. 2026
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The scent of orange blossoms perfuming our neighborhoods.—
Carolynn Carreño,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2026
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So does Soderbergh’s camera, which begins sniffing and roving about the space like a dog unleashed.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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At one of these gatherings trouble broke out over girls, glue-sniffing, and hassles caused by confusion over membership in the various branches of the organization.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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Wang shared some preliminary data from the study, noting that early findings connect passive smartphone sensing data with brief real-time check-ins about mood and behavior (called ecological momentary assessment).—
Crista Marchesseault,
Hartford Courant,
4 Apr. 2026
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Scientists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have built a tiny detector capable of sensing microwave photons, which are about 10,000 times weaker than optical photons.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Apr. 2026
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Just before Sunday’s collision, controllers were dealing with another plane that had declared an emergency after aborting a takeoff and smelling an odor on the plane.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2026
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Red, white and blue smoke shaped as an American flag hung in the air for a moment before quickly dissolving into a foul-smelling cloud that covered the ballpark and looked like a twisted tribute to, oh say, a military incursion.—
Sports Columnist,
San Francisco Chronicle,
25 Mar. 2026
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Witnesses have reported feeling both earthquakes in communities as far away as Randleman (64 miles away) and High Point (80 miles away), the USGS says.—
Mark Price
April 6,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Apr. 2026
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The Dodgers’ star shortstop left Saturday’s game after running the bases in the first inning and feeling pain in the right side of his lower back.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
5 Apr. 2026
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When a degraded grassland returns to health, the ground heaves up, as if inhaling with relief.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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Humans are evolutionarily designed for hunting and gathering — not for lifting 50-pound boxes for eight hours straight or inhaling toxic dust in an industrial sanding booth.—
Vivek Ranadive,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2026
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Whizzing by the moon up to 6,000 miles above the surface, the astronauts will also glimpse the celestial body's full disk, seeing sights that not even the Apollo astronauts witnessed.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Being embedded meant slowing down, listening, and understanding the genealogy of the triennial itself—seeing HT25 not as a rupture, but as part of an ongoing continuum.—
Wassan Al-Khudhairi,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Scenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scenting. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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