dank
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His home being Hollywood—specifically a somewhat dank apartment, rendered in depressing detail by set designer François-Pierre Couture—Mr. Guimarães encounters qualities that are endemic to the place: for instance career envy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
Since then, he’s been confined to a dank cell at Beihai’s No. 2 Detention Center, cut off from his flock and his family, 8,000 miles away in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Many seats, located behind thick steel girders, have obstructed views and the stadium can feel dark and dank on cold Liverpool nights.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
And I turn a sharp left down the dank alley toward the A building, alone.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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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
Most discussions about human differences remain stuck in myth, pseudo-science and the danker parts of the psyche.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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In his later speculations, this author conceives that the termination ish forms the first degree of comparison; as, "Imperfect, dankish," Pos. dank, Comp. danker, Superl. dankest.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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
Here the rivers were a stagnant marsh, with outlet hidden by dankest forest growth where the light of the sun never penetrated.
From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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