dank
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It ushered in a new kind of fun that was fresher, busier and airier than past listservs and chatrooms, the dank basements of internet interaction.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Nevertheless, Brook ensured England used the play possible on a damp, dank day in Leeds to cement their advantage.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
“God it’s cold and dank here! Wish I was still a pet in your family!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
More time spent scrolling dank memes and reels on social media or bingeing the “King of the Hill” reboot on Hulu means less time for the latest pick from Oprah’s Book Club.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
The men’s room was in a dank, smelly hallway that ran perpendicular to the bar.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Typically, it takes samples from early-90s hip-hop and deploys distorting techniques such as chopped and screwed – the song-stretching fad that peaked in 2009 – to create a darker, danker sound.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2017
The same sort of fungi can still be found sprouting palely in the darker, danker corners of A.F. of L. For instance: "Umbrella Mike" Boyle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most discussions about human differences remain stuck in myth, pseudo-science and the danker parts of the psyche.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even if you lived on a hill just above the Bottoms, it seemed lower and danker than the meanest hut on a graded street.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
The dripping tombstone that blocked Priscilla's window grew danker and blacker as the day went by.
From The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth
And, voilà—a meme that originated in the dankest depths of the right-wing internet was reborn as mainstream marketing.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2023
During the dankest days of the pandemic lockdowns, Dana Loesch needed something to occupy herself.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2021
It simply takes this premise to its dankest and most outrageous ends, yielding a version of politics that is, in its way, darker than anything you see on “House of Cards.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 5, 2017
Singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney have been together for more than a decade and have slowly climbed from the dirtiest, dankest of basements and clubs to headline theaters and, now, stadiums.
From Chicago Tribune ● Sep. 19, 2014
From sheer weariness they slept at times, in chill discomfort and dankest wretchedness, just where they sat or lay.
From Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham
Vocabulary lists containing dank
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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"Rogue Wave" by Theodore Taylor
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