What does sniff out mean?
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sniff out
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Princeton's WordNet
sniff out, scent out, smell out, nose outverb
recognize or detect by or as if by smelling
"He can smell out trouble"
Wiktionary
sniff outverb
To find something using the sense of smell.
sniff outverb
to find, especially to find something that cannot be seen.
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sniff out
To sniff out means to discover or detect something through careful investigation, intuition, or by paying attention to small details. It is often used to refer to uncovering secrets, falsehoods, or hidden information. The phrase comes from the tendency of animals, like dogs, to use their sense of smell to locate things.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sniff out in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sniff out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of sniff out in a Sentence
Experiments show that these rats can detect a sample with TB parasites in a second and evidence has shown that they are able to sniff out even those with very minimal parasites.
There have already been so many fantastic achievements in the dogs work to detect human disease, and I believe they can be trained to sniff out COVID-19.
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