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funk

[fuhngk] / fʌŋk /


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But this time, Walker snapped out of his funk.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

Other acts performing on Friday include indie rock band Wolf Alice, veteran funk star Nile Rodgers and psychedelic rock band the Beta Band, who reformed last year after more than two decades away.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

They might help shares break out of their recent funk.

From Barron's Jun. 16, 2026

The free concert series kicks off with a performance by the Latin hip-hop funk band Ozomatli on June 13.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

Swamps, dead fish, sweat, dirty toilets, and straight-up-and-down funk.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

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

And hope that the learning curve hastens for the likes of Kelenic and White, while the struggling veterans find a way out of their collective funks.

From Seattle Times May 19, 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He felt deeply responsible for Eric, who could be cheerfully upbeat but could also grow morose and withdrawn and sometimes would sink into deep funks, not talking for days.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

In the traditional scheme of things, this represents the ultimate role reversal and Dreyfuss handles the passages where he is feeling funked out by the conflict between love and ambition very nicely.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Great Powers plainly funked when Germany was permitted to dismember Czechoslovakia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet his manner, when he did put in an appearance, conveyed absolutely no impression; as St. John afterwards informed his wife he believed that Markham had funked it.

From The Triumph of Jill by F.E. Mills Young

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

Up and down he went, and up and down gaed the beast on its hind legs and its fore legs, funking like mad.

From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various




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