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The S&P 500 was on the verge of following the Nasdaq Composite Index to a fresh record high on Monday, with technology stocks and other artificial-intelligence plays helping lift equities out of a recent funk.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Charlie Wilson, one of the most potent voices in 1980s funk, played more than 35 shows last year before suffering multiple strokes in October.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The smart money will be on Root to come out of his funk, rather than this being the start of a late-career decline.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

So the Caesar-ish dressing here is intentionally concentrated: cream cheese for body, Kewpie for tang and richness, and a dab of white miso for the salty, fermented funk that anchovy ordinarily brings to Caesar.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Oddly, it helped break him out of his funk, snap him to attention.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

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

Career primes can become can’t-shake-them funks in a blink.

From Washington Post ● May 5, 2022

He watched two teammates bust out of funks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 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He felt deeply responsible for Eric, who could be cheerfully upbeat but could also grow morose and withdrawn and sometimes would sink into deep funks, not talking for days.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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, yes, I did try to get out,—got as far as the clerk's office last evening, but at the last minute I funked it, and went back on to the roof.

From Fantômas by Cranstoun Metcalfe

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

You can't imagine how I've been funking asking you—I thought you'd say yes, but one feels such an awful fool—and I've never done it before.

From Consequences by E. M. Delafield