funk

Exports are booming, but the rest of China’s economy is in a funk, weighed down by feeble consumption and a multiyear property slump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Jackson, born in New York, got his start in music singing gospel before moving to California to perform with the ’70s funk band Mystic Merlin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

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

But there were so many variations to it—the Latin one, the R&B one, the funk shingaling—it was hard not to mix them up.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

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He felt deeply responsible for Eric, who could be cheerfully upbeat but could also grow morose and withdrawn and sometimes would sink into deep funks, not talking for days.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

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

At the eviction a man had funked, frightened out of his seven senses.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley

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

Aha, he is funking, he is running away.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky