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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

Damon, Bernthal and up to 25 others crammed into the dank vessel and clung to its cross beams as cold water pumped in and the silo rocked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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

Wearing a surgical mask to hold off the dank air, Reyes chose a bike and, before going to work on its components, performed the last rite for its former life.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

“If I were as gorgeous as Roza, I’d smile all the time,” Amber said, glancing at the clots of guys assembled in the dank, dim basement.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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

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

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

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

Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl — a pair of boundlessly eager, profoundly unrepentant aspirants to the dankest depths of political chicanery — were watching television together the other day when something caught Burkman’s eye.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2019

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

Preaching the dankest Grundyism and upholding the rank customs of our trade - you, who are so cruel hard upon the customs of the publishers?

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson