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gunk

[guhngk] / gʌŋk /














NOUN
soot
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To deal with any remaining sticky or dried-on gunk, I do a simple two-pass wipe-down.

From Salon May 5, 2026

Bringing it all to a head: a civil trial began last week in a federal court where Elon Musk was trying to oust Altman, his former partner, and gunk up OpenAI’s going-public ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal May 3, 2026

He’s underqualified to fly planes or lead science experiments or even dish the gunk.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 7, 2025

The 34-year-old has 15m followers on TikTok who watch him remove gunk and debris from swimming pools and then use a jet washer to restore them back to their original beauty.

From BBC Dec. 3, 2024

My fists rubbed the crusted gunk from my eyes as the drumming against my window picked up to a steady beat.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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