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Synonyms for sniffing
sniff·ing

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  1. List of paraphrases for "sniffing":

    sniffling, sniff, snorting, tracing

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  1. John Manley:

    The market is sniffing out a bottom in the underlying commodity and we are seeing a bounce in energy stocks from having been oversold in the last month or so, it's in no one's interest for oil to go any lower; not in ours, or OPEC's.

  2. Kristin Watson:

    If Will has to leave me and Roam behind to go on a work trip, I feel super safe because I have my dog, he’s one of those dogs that, he’s only going to bark if there’s someone sniffing around the bus or something. So he’s an alarm system.

  3. Carol Edwards:

    We collected some socks from people willing to donate socks, and we taught the dogs, by smelling the socks, which ones were the Covid socks and they picked it up very quickly, then we moved into the schools and started sniffing the kids at the ankles.

  4. Amesh Adalja:

    That's likely what dogs are reacting to, we know for other purposes, we use dogs that way for bomb-sniffing, for drugs, and they have tried to use them in cancer diagnosis. They've been trying to use them for C. diff diagnosis as well.

  5. Ben Hottel:

    Rodents are experts at sniffing out food and shelter, and they're resilient in their ways to obtain both, residential properties offer the ideal habitat for rodents, and once they've settled in, they're capable of reproducing rapidly and in large quantities.


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