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also smokey
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as in sooty
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Recent Examples of smoky
Smoke beyond mezcal Mezcal may lure in those with a longing for smoky flavors, but it can also be achieved through other methods.
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Joey Skladany, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2025
The color was an almost exact match for her silver-and-gold gown, with a smoky, shiny cool silver-gray tone contrasted with her dark blonde roots.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 6 Mar. 2025
The smoky blaze broke out about 7:20 a.m. on the top floor of the five-story building on Waverly Place near Grove St.
More than 60 firefighters and EMS personnel responded.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
The smoky Gouda, paired with the hot sausage, is a match made in heaven.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2025
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Joey Skladany, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2025
The color was an almost exact match for her silver-and-gold gown, with a smoky, shiny cool silver-gray tone contrasted with her dark blonde roots.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 6 Mar. 2025
The smoky blaze broke out about 7:20 a.m. on the top floor of the five-story building on Waverly Place near Grove St.
More than 60 firefighters and EMS personnel responded.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
The smoky Gouda, paired with the hot sausage, is a match made in heaven.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoky
Adjective
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Typically lasting about a week, these include chronic cough, sneezing fits, runny nose, sinus pressure, headache, swollen lymph nodes, and hoarse (scratchy, raspy) voice.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
17 Mar. 2025
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Those concerns came to a head during Biden's debate against now-President Donald Trump in June, when Biden sounded hoarse and appeared to stumble through several answers.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Black carbon is a dark, sooty byproduct of burning fossil fuels.—
Jillian Mock,
Discover Magazine,
17 Sep. 2019
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By the closer — a grim, sooty final reckoning with the events of June 13 — the colourful escapism of the Uphaar’s Bollywood posters suddenly looks half a world away.—
Mike McCahill,
Variety,
17 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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Voicing the bag is an older woman with a husky Tuscan timbre, which carries the whole way through its lifecycle onscreen.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
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My husky boy feet cemented into the concrete veranda.—
Diane Seuss,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
Adjective
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In The Empire’s frame, residents of a coastal village in northern France — gruff, virile fisherman Jony (Brandon Vlieghe) and teenage tease Line (Lyna Khoudri) — reveal their oddball allegiance to extraterrestrial invaders.—
Armond White,
National Review,
14 Mar. 2025
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There’s a gruff and garrulous baseball pitching and hitting machine called Pop Fly (Brian Cox).—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Below are the stocks that came up in our search: While shares of Tesla , which has an RSI of around 22, advanced more than 5% midday Tuesday, on track to snap a three-day losing streak, the stock has had a rough time in recent weeks.—
Sean Conlon,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2025
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Sony has also had a bit of a rough time with the PS5 Pro, a device which has had at least some measure of technical problems where at times, its upgrades are failing to impress or even on occasion, making some games look worse.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Smoky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smoky. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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