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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

Such minor miracles are everywhere in the history of horror, which has always been something of cinema’s dank basement, and its most fertile ground for low-fi creativity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Usually it was fog in January in Holland, dank, chill, and gray.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

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