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self-smelling

How to use self-smelling in a sentence. Live example sentences for self-smelling pulled from indexed public discussions.

Editorial note

It's interesting how the authors speculate about the link between self-smelling and consciousness.

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Quick take

It's interesting how the authors speculate about the link between self-smelling and consciousness.

Example sentences

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It's interesting how the authors speculate about the link between self-smelling and consciousness.

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Self-smelling could be a mechanism for figuring out self-smell for the purposes of not getting confused by it when trying to distinguish environmental sources.

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The submitted title was "A hypothesis that self-face-touching subserves self-smelling", which I assume was an admirable attempt to make the title less baity by using representative language from the text.

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I'd have gone with "supports", maybe, but the connotation is different; "subserves" says self-smelling is a major purpose of self-face-touching, "supports" suggests the association may be coincidental.

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The submitted title was "A hypothesis that self-face-touching subserves self-smelling", which I assume was an admirable attempt to make the title less baity by using representative language from the text.

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I'd have gone with "supports", maybe, but the connotation is different; "subserves" says self-smelling is a major purpose of self-face-touching, "supports" suggests the association may be coincidental.

Proper noun examples

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Self-smelling could be a mechanism for figuring out self-smell for the purposes of not getting confused by it when trying to distinguish environmental sources.

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How do you use self-smelling in a sentence?

It's interesting how the authors speculate about the link between self-smelling and consciousness.