funk

Its influence sweeps through “classical music, ragtime, tango, jazz, rhythm and blues, country, rock and roll, funk and hip hop.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The butter made it rich; the miso gave it a subtle funk.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

But the stock has been in a funk, down 38% from highs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

That track record is what Dodgers manager Dave Roberts is leaning on, too, as he continues to predict that Ohtani will bust out of his funk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Hey, guess the name of the band we got to play for the festival,” I said, hoping he’d snap out of whatever funk he was in.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

Psychiatrists and psychologists talk to us, shock us and above all, medicate us to lift us from our funks.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 24, 2022

They’ll be highly reliant on players like Jesse Winker, Carlos Santana, Kyle Lewis and Eugenio Suarez coming out of recent funks, and the returning players, especially Haniger, providing a significant impact.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

He watched two teammates bust out of funks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2021

Sometimes, cooking funks arrive without warning — and they don't care whether you have a pantry full of groceries, or are having friends over in two hours, or are hungry literally right now.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2021

He felt deeply responsible for Eric, who could be cheerfully upbeat but could also grow morose and withdrawn and sometimes would sink into deep funks, not talking for days.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

The reason was obvious, although Bach didn’t quite put it in these terms: the Games needed to be funked up for a younger generation.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2017

Gospel-infused smokin' swamp pop, clearly on-topic and funked up by Spooner Oldham's spiky, staccato keyboard flourishes.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2011

At this crux, his tears accomplished what his nerve funked.

From Time Magazine Archive

Berserk and beautiful: classical waltz music funked up for dancing by rock's baddest bad boy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The blood-horse went at him, the sentry funked, and then, as if satisfied with his demonstration, the blood-horse—the bit always in his mouth—made a demi-tour, and faced a post of douaniers.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea

After funking up Marymoor Park with an ace band in 2019, the 81-year-old progressive jazz great’s taking it inside to the Paramount Theatre’s more acoustically advanced surroundings.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021

Herbie Hancock played “Watermelon Man” in all of its Blue Note piano splendor before funking it up with a handheld synthesizer.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2016

"Everybody funking and don't know how," sang Clinton.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2016

The troubadour goes optimistic in the title track before funking out on “Walking Like a Man” and the bluegrass-influenced “Roses in the Rain.”

From Washington Times ● May 3, 2015

"But," said French, "isn't that rather funking it?"

From The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan by Ralph Connor